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[2] in Japan.[3]

Biography

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

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Species

Species described by Kikutaro Baba include:

Taxa named in honor of him

Genera:

Species:

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ a b c (January 2002) nudibranch NEWS Vol.4 No.04: 44
  2. ^ 菊太郎, 馬場 (1987). "厚岸湾産コザクラミノウミウシの解剖学的再検討". 貝類学雑誌. 46 (3): 151–156. doi:10.18941/venusjjm.46.3_151.
  3. ^ 巖, 濱谷 (2002). "馬場菊太郎博士の新タクサおよび業績目録". Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 61 (1–2): 97–110. doi:10.18941/venus.61.1-2_97.