was a Japanese fisheries biologist and cnidariologist

Cnidariologist

-Examples:* Browne, Edward Thomas * Bigelow, Henry Bryant * Kirkpatrick, Randolph * Kishinouye, Kamakichi * Lassenius Kramp, Paul Torben * Mayer, Alfred G....

 and a professor of the Imperial University of Tokyo (Faculty of Agriculture) between 1908 and 1928.

Kishinouye recommended Kumataro Ito

Kumataro Ito

Kumataro Ito was the illustrator on board the Bureau of Fisheries Steamer U.S.S. Albatross during the Philippine Expedition from 1907 to 1910....

 to Hugh M. Smith as an artist on board the Bureau of Fisheries Steamer U.S.S. Albatross

USS Albatross (1882)

The second USS Albatross, often seen as USFC Albatross in scientific literature citations, was an iron-hulled, twin-screw steamer in the United States Navy and reputedly the first vessel ever built especially for marine research....

 during the Philippine Expedition from 1907 to 1910.

Publications

• Contributions to the comparative study of the so-called scombroid fishes. (1923) Tokyo : Imperial University of Tokyo, - Journal of the College of Agriculture ; volume viii, no. 3 ii, p. 293-475
• Larval and juvenile tunas and skipjacks. (1919)
• A Study of the Mackerels, Cybiids, and Tunas. (1915) Special Scientific Report - Fisheries, no. 24.
• Prehistoric fishing in Japan. (1911) J. Coll. Agriculture, Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 2;328-382.
• Some Medusae of Japanese Waters. (1910)
• Some New Scyphomedusae of Japan. (1902)
• Note on the Eyes of Cardium Muticum Reeve. (1894)
• Note on the Coelomic Cavity of the Spider. (1894)
• On the Development of Limulus Longispina. (1893)
• On the Lasteral Eyes of the Spiders. (1893)
• On the Development of Araneina. (1891)

Tributes

He gave his name to the jellyfish

Jellyfish

Jellyfish are free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria. Medusa is another word for jellyfish, and refers to any free-swimming jellyfish stages in the phylum Cnidaria...

 genus Kishinouyea

Kishinouyea

Kishinouyea is a stalked jellyfish genus in the family Kishinouyeidae. The genus name is a tribute to Japanese cnidariologist Kamakichi Kishinouye.-Homonymy:...

Mayer, 1910, with a preoccupied name. Kishinouyea has been also used by Yoshio Ôuchi to describe a praying mantis genus that he quickly renamed Kishinouyeum in 1938, and that could be a junior synonym for Phyllothelys.

Kishinoella (with species Kishinoella rara (Kishinouye, 1915) and Kishinoella tonggol (Bleeker, 1851)) is a synonym genus name to describe Thunnus tonggol

Thunnus tonggol

Thunnus tonggol is a tuna of tropical Pacific waters known generally as tonggol tuna.Due to vagueries of naming regulations Thunnus tongol may legally, albeit confusingly, be called northern bluefin in Australia.-External links:...

(Bleeker, 1851) (accepted name).

The epithet kishinouyei

Kishinouyei

Kishinouyei, a Latin adjective referring to Japanese marine biologist Kamakichi Kishinouye , may refer to :...

is used to refer to Kamakichi Kishinouye in species names.

External links

• Picture of Kamakichi Kishinouye on www.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Japanese, search "岸上鎌吉")