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Name
  
Takasi Tokioka


Died
  
September 30, 2001

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Takasi Tokioka (時岡 隆, Tokioka Takashi, 1913 – September 30, 2001) was a Japanese zoologist. He published over 200 scientific articles on marine animals such as chaetognaths, ctenophores, and tunicates. He was Professor of Zoology at Kyoto University working at the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory in Shirahama, Japan. From 1975-1977, he was the Director of SMBL.

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Eponymous species

At least a dozen species are named in his honor, including these below.

  • Acartia tokiokai Mori, 1942 - Copepoda
  • Atlanta tokiokai van der Spoel & Troost, 1972 - Heteropoda
  • Bolivina tokiokai Uchio, 1962 - Formanifera
  • Eudistoma tokiokai Nishikawa, 1990 - Ascidiacea
  • Euchromadora tokiokai Wieser, 1955 - Nematoda
  • Krohnittella tokiokai Bieri, 1974 - Chaetognatha
  • Ophiocentrus tokiokai Irimura, 1981 - Ophiuroidea
  • Polycarpa tokiokai Monniot & Monniot, 1996 - Ascidiacea
  • Styela tokiokai Nishikawa, 1991 - Ascidiacea
  • References

    Takasi Tokioka Wikipedia