Masamitsu Ōshima Explained

Masamitsu Ōshima
Birth Date:	21 June 1884
Alma Mater:	Stanford University

was a Japanese herpetologist and ichthyologist. He received his Master's from Stanford University. He is noted for studies of the fish species of Taiwan and on snakes.^{[1] [2]}

Taxon described by him

• See
• Squalidus iijimae Named in honor of zoologist Isao lijima.
• Pungtungia shiraii Named in honor of Kunihiko Shirai.^[3]
• Aphyocypris kikuchii Named in honor of Yonetaro Kikuchi (1869–1921), collector for the Taipei Museum in Formosa (Taiwan), who collected the type specimen.
• Barbodes snyderi Snyder's barb.
• Oncorhynchus masou formosanus
• Spinibarbus hollandi Named in honor of zoologist-paleontologist William J. Holland.

Partial bibliography

• A Review of the Fishes of the Family Mugilidæ Found in the Waters of Formosa
• A Review of the Fishes of the Family Centriscidæ Found in the Waters of Formosa
• Notes on the Venomous Snakes from the Islands of Formosa and Riu Kiu
• A cyclopedia of applied zoology
• 魚 (Fishes, in Japanese), Tokyo 1940

Notes and References

1. http://taiwanjournal.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=19315&CtNode=118 Taiwan Journal
2. Web site: AMNH . 2013-09-26 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20070712015311/http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/pubindex/herp_novitates_bib.pdf . July 12, 2007 .
3. Web site: Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE . 5 March 2021 . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . amp . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . 22 September 2018 . 29 September 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190929065546/http://www.etyfish.org/cypriniformes14/ . dead .