Yoshio Abe Explained

Native Name:阿部 余四男
Native Name Lang:ja
Birth Date:3 January 1891
Birth Place:Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
Nationality:ese
Alma Mater:University of Tokyo

, from Yamagata Prefecture, was a professor of zoology at which was amalgamated into Hiroshima University by the enactment of National School Establishment Law and the above-mentioned Hiroshima University after the amalgamation.

Abe graduate from University of Tokyo and was the first Japanese scientist to study kinorhynchs, with one such animal, Dracoderes abei, being named after him.[1] Also named after him was Abe's salamander and Abe's Whiskered Bat, Myotis abei Yoshikura 1944, as a tribute from one of his students.

Notes and References

  1. Behlens, Bo, Watkins, Michael. and Grayson, Michael Eponym Dictionary of Mammals, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009 . p. 1