Hisashi Abe

Hisashi Abe (阿部 永) is a Japanese mammalogist and a former professor of Zoology at Hokkaido University Sapporo in Hokkaidō, Japan. He has authored a variety of publications on the taxonomy of various mammal species endemic to East Asia. He was formerly the president of Mammal Society of Japan.

Early life
Abe was born during 1933 in Yoshinogawa, Tokushima.