Kikutaro Baba

Kikutaro Baba (馬場 菊太郎 Baba Kikutarō, 11 July 1905 Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan – 30 November 2001 Japan)[1] was a Japanese malacologist. He was the leading researcher on sea slugs and bubble snails, opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in Japan.

Biography

Kikutaro Baba was married to Mrs. Sonoko Baba.[1] He died of pneumonia in hospital in Japan on 30 November 2001.[1]

Species

Species described by Kikutaro Baba include:

Taxa named in honor of him

Genera:

Species:

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 3 (January 2002) nudibranch NEWS Vol.4 No.04: 44

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