Kikutaro Baba


Kikutaro Baba was a Japanese malacologist. He was the leading researcher on sea slugs and bubble snails, opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in Japan.

Biography

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

Species

Species described by Kikutaro Baba include:Aglaja orientalis Baba, 1949Aldisa cooperi Robilliard & Baba, 1972Antonietta janthina Baba & Hamatani, 1977Aplysia kurodai Baba, 1937Aplysia sagamiana Baba, 1949Aplysiopsis minor Aplysiopsis nigra Aplysiopsis orientalis Baba, 1949Armina magna Baba, 1955Bornella japonica Baba, 1949Cadlina japonica Baba, 1937Cadlina sagamiensis Baba, 1937Carminodoris bifurcata Baba, 1993Chelidonura fulvipunctata Baba, 1938Ceratosoma bicolor Baba, 1949Cerberilla asamusiensis Baba, 1940Chelidonura fulvipunctata Baba, 1938Chelidonura inornata Baba, 1949Chelidonura tsurugensis Baba & Abe, 1959Cratena affinis Crimora lutea Baba, 1949Cuthona alpha Baba & Hamatani, 1963Cuthona anulata Cuthona beta Cuthona diversicolor Cuthona ornata Baba, 1937Cuthona purpureoanulata Dendrodoris elongata Baba, 1936Dermatobranchus albopunctulatus Baba, 1976Dermatobranchus nigropunctatus Baba, 1949Dermatobranchus otome Baba, 1992Dermatobranchus primus Baba, 1976Dermatobranchus semistriatus Baba, 1949Dermatobranchus striatellus Baba, 1949Elysia abei Baba, 1955Elysia amakusana Baba, 1955Elysia kushimotoensis Baba, 1938Elysia obtusa Baba, 1938Elysia trisinuata Baba, 1949Ercolania boodleae Ercolania subviridis Eubranchopsis virginalis Baba, 1949Eubranchus horii Baba, 1960Eubranchus inabai Baba, 1964Eubranchus misakiensis Baba, 1960Euphurus ornatus Baba, 1937Facelina quadrilineata Favorinus japonicus Baba, 1949Favorinus mirabilis Baba, 1955Favorinus perfoliatus Baba, 1949Favorinus tsuruganus Baba & Abe, 19Glossodoris misakinosibogae Baba, 1988Goniodoris felis Baba, 1949Gymnodoris amakusana Gymnodoris nigricolor Baba, 1960Gymnodoris okinawae Baba, 1936Gymnodoris subflava Baba, 1949Halgerda rubicunda Baba, 1949Hermaea zosterae Hermaeina nigra Baba, 1949Hermissenda emurai Herviella albida Baba, 1966Herviella yatsui Hopkinsia hiroi Hopkinsia plana Hypselodoris kaname Baba, 1994Hypselodoris maritima Hypselodoris placida Hypselodoris sagamiensis Hypselodoris shimodaensis Baba, 1994Janolus mirabilis Baba & Abe, 1970Janolus toyamensis Baba & Abe, 1970Jorunna parva Kaloplocamus acutus Baba, 1949Lobiger sagamiensis Baba, 1952Madrella gloriosa Baba, 1949Madrella granlaris Baba, 1949Metaruncina setoensis Mexichromis multituberculata Noumea nivalis Baba, 1937Noumea purpurea Baba, 1949Noumea subnivalis Baba, 1987Okenia barnardi Baba, 1937Okenia distincta Baba, 1940Okenia echinata Baba, 1949Okenia japonica Baba, 1949Okenia plana Baba, 1960Petalifera ramosa Baba, 1959Phidiana anulifera Phyllidia japonica Baba, 1937Phyllidia zebrina Baba, 1976Phyllodesmium iriomotense Baba, 1991Phyllodesmium kabiranum Baba, 1991Phyllodesmium serratum Pleurobranchus hirasei Baba, 1971Polycera fujitai Baba, 1937Polycera japonica Baba, 1949Protaeolidiella atra Baba, 1955Roboastra luteolineata Rostanga risbeci Baba, 1991Sagaminopteron ornatum Tokioka & Baba, 1964Sakuraeolis enosimensis Sakuraeolis sp. Baba, 1965 In: Baba & Hamatani, 1965Siphopteron flavum Siphopteron fuscum Stiliger smaragdinus Baba, 1949Stiliger subviridis Baba, 1949Tambja amakusana Baba, 1987Tambja kushimotoensis Baba, 1987Tambja sagamiana Thecacera picta Baba, 1972Thordisa parva Baba, 1938Thordisa sanguinea Baba, 1955Thorunna florens Thuridilla livida Thuridilla splendens Trapania japonica Tritonia insulae Tritoniopsilla alba Baba, 1949

Taxa named in honor of him

Genera:Babaina Odhner, 1968Babakina Roller, 1973Babiella Risso-Dominguez, 1964
Species:Linguella babai Tchang-Si, 1934Marionopsis babai Odhner, 1936Elysia babai Pruvot-Fol, 1945Okenia babai Hamatani, 1961Tamanovalva babai Burn, 1965Flabellina babai Schmekel, 1970Cyerce kikutarobabai Hamatani, 1976Chelidonura babai Gosliner, 1988Phyllidia babai Brunckhorst 1993Hypselodoris babai Gosliner & Behrens 2000Philine babai Valdés, 2008