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Name
  
Shintaro Hirase

Shintaro Hirase
Born
  
February 28, 1884 Awaji Island, Japan (
1884-02-28
)

Died
  
September 9, 1939(1939-09-09) (aged 55) Tokyo, Japan

Shintaro Hirase (平瀬 信太郎, Hirase Shintaro, February 28, 1884 - September 9, 1939) was a Japanese malacologist. His father, Yoichiro Hirase, (1859-1925) was also a malacologist.

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Shintaro Hirase was a teaching zoologist at Seikei College.

Collection

From the collection of Shintaro Hirase and much more valuable collection by his father Yoichiro Hirase have survived only about 30% with about 5000 specimen. Majority of the collection was destroyed by incendiary bombs in the house of Shintaro Hirase and in the Research Institute for Natural Resources in Tokyo during bombing of Tokyo. The collection have been stored in the Research Institute for Natural Resources in Tokyo in 1948.

Taxa described

  • Aglaja iwasai Hirase, 1936 was synonymized with Philinopsis cyanea (Martens, 1879) by William B. Rudman in 1972.
  • Babylonia pallida Hirase, 1934 is a synonym of Babylonia kirana Habe, 1965
  • Berthella gotoi Hirase, 1936
  • Oscanius testudinarius Hirase 1927
  • Ostrea circumpicta Hirase, 1930 is a synonym of Crassostrea nippona (Seki, 1934)
  • Xenophora tenuis Hirase, 1934 is a synonym of Xenophora tenuis Fulton, 1983

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