[Cnidaria] Eponym question

[Kensuke Yanagi]

Dear Dr. Hansson,

About Kanichi (Kan-ichi) Nomura, see also

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/IIFET/2000/papers/yamamoto.pdf


Kensuke Yanagi
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Kensuke Yanagi, Ph.D.
Associate Curator of Cnidaria
Coastal Branch of Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba
123 Yoshio, Katsuura, Chiba 299-5242, JAPAN
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"Hans G. Hansson" <hans.g.hansson at tmbl.gu.se> wrote:
(2007/07/27 20:15)

>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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