[Cnidaria] Eponym question

[Toyokawa Masaya]

Dr. Hansson,

According to Kishinouye (1922), Mr. Kan-ichi Nomura was the Director 
General of the Fukui Prefectural Fisheries Experimental Station.
Prof. "Kenkichi" Kishinouye received his first specimen of Nemopilema 
nomurai from the Station in early December in 1921. The sample was sent 
to him in a 72 L volume wood tank.
The sample was different from known species, he visited the Station 
during the winter vacation. And examined a specimen caught in a 
yellowtail set-net with help from the Station and the Obama Fisheries 
School.
The remain of Kishinouye (1922) was translated into English by Omori and 
Kitamura (2004).

Masaya Toyokawa


Hans G. Hansson wrote:
> Dear cnidariologists,
> 
> Does anybody know who Nomura was, honoured in the eponym of the very 
> large species of Rhizostomae /Nemopilema nomurai/, described by prof. 
> Kamakishi Kishinouye in 1922? Possibly the honoured person may be either 
> the malacologist Shichihei [Sitihei] Nomura, 1892-1945, or the 
> oligochaete worker Ekitaro Nomura, 1887?-19??, at Tohoku Imperial Univ., 
> but perhaps there may be a third person by that rather common Japanese 
> name, who is the real honouree?
> 
> Best wishes and thank you in advance
> 
> Hans G. H.

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Dr. Masaya Toyokawa
National Research Institute of Fisheries Science
Fisheries Research Agency, Japan
mtoyokaw at affrc.go.jp
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