Kikutaro Baba

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

Biography

 * 1932–1941 Kyushu University
 * 1948–1949 Osaka Kyoiku University
 * 1976 – Order of the Rising Sun

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, 1949
 * Aldisa cooperi Robilliard & Baba, 1972
 * Antonietta janthina Baba & Hamatani, 1977
 * Aplysia kurodai Baba, 1937
 * Aplysia sagamiana Baba, 1949
 * Aplysiopsis minor (Baba, 1959)
 * Aplysiopsis nigra (Baba, 1949)
 * Aplysiopsis orientalis Baba, 1949
 * Armina magna Baba, 1955
 * Bornella japonica Baba, 1949
 * Cadlina japonica Baba, 1937
 * Cadlina sagamiensis Baba, 1937
 * Carminodoris bifurcata Baba, 1993
 * Chelidonura fulvipunctata Baba, 1938
 * Ceratosoma bicolor Baba, 1949
 * Cerberilla asamusiensis Baba, 1940
 * Chelidonura fulvipunctata Baba, 1938
 * Chelidonura inornata Baba, 1949
 * Chelidonura tsurugensis Baba & Abe, 1959
 * Cratena affinis (Baba, 1949)
 * Crimora lutea Baba, 1949
 * Cuthona alpha Baba & Hamatani, 1963
 * Cuthona anulata (Baba, 1949)
 * Cuthona beta (Baba & Abe, 1964)
 * Cuthona diversicolor (Baba, 1975)
 * Cuthona ornata Baba, 1937
 * Cuthona purpureoanulata (Baba, 1961)
 * Dendrodoris elongata Baba, 1936
 * Dermatobranchus albopunctulatus Baba, 1976
 * Dermatobranchus nigropunctatus Baba, 1949
 * Dermatobranchus otome Baba, 1992
 * Dermatobranchus primus Baba, 1976
 * Dermatobranchus semistriatus Baba, 1949
 * Dermatobranchus striatellus Baba, 1949
 * Elysia abei Baba, 1955
 * Elysia amakusana Baba, 1955
 * Elysia kushimotoensis Baba, 1938
 * Elysia obtusa Baba, 1938
 * Elysia trisinuata Baba, 1949
 * Ercolania boodleae (Baba, 1938)
 * Ercolania subviridis (Baba, 1959)
 * Eubranchopsis virginalis Baba, 1949
 * Eubranchus horii Baba, 1960
 * Eubranchus inabai Baba, 1964
 * Eubranchus misakiensis Baba, 1960
 * Euphurus ornatus Baba, 1937
 * Facelina quadrilineata (Baba, 1930)
 * Favorinus japonicus Baba, 1949
 * Favorinus mirabilis Baba, 1955
 * Favorinus perfoliatus Baba, 1949
 * Favorinus tsuruganus Baba & Abe, 19
 * Glossodoris misakinosibogae Baba, 1988
 * Goniodoris felis Baba, 1949
 * Gymnodoris amakusana (Baba, 1996)
 * Gymnodoris nigricolor Baba, 1960
 * Gymnodoris okinawae Baba, 1936
 * Gymnodoris subflava Baba, 1949
 * Halgerda rubicunda Baba, 1949
 * Hermaea zosterae (Baba, 1959)
 * Hermaeina nigra Baba, 1949
 * Hermissenda emurai (Baba, 1937)
 * Herviella albida Baba, 1966
 * Herviella yatsui (Baba, 1930)
 * Hopkinsia hiroi (Baba, 1938)
 * Hopkinsia plana (Baba, 1960)
 * Hypselodoris kaname Baba, 1994
 * Hypselodoris maritima (Baba, 1949)
 * Hypselodoris placida (Baba, 1949)
 * Hypselodoris sagamiensis (Baba, 1949)
 * Hypselodoris shimodaensis Baba, 1994
 * Janolus mirabilis Baba & Abe, 1970
 * Janolus toyamensis Baba & Abe, 1970
 * Jorunna parva (Baba, 1938)
 * Kaloplocamus acutus Baba, 1949
 * Lobiger sagamiensis Baba, 1952
 * Madrella gloriosa Baba, 1949
 * Madrella granlaris Baba, 1949
 * Metaruncina setoensis (Baba, 1954)
 * Mexichromis multituberculata (Baba, 1953)
 * Noumea nivalis Baba, 1937
 * Noumea purpurea Baba, 1949
 * Noumea subnivalis Baba, 1987
 * Okenia barnardi Baba, 1937
 * Okenia distincta Baba, 1940
 * Okenia echinata Baba, 1949
 * Okenia japonica Baba, 1949
 * Okenia plana Baba, 1960
 * Petalifera ramosa Baba, 1959
 * Phidiana anulifera (Baba, 1949)
 * Phyllidia zebrina Baba, 1976
 * Phyllodesmium iriomotense Baba, 1991
 * Phyllodesmium kabiranum Baba, 1991
 * Phyllodesmium serratum (Baba, 1949)
 * Pleurobranchus hirasei Baba, 1971
 * Polycera fujitai Baba, 1937
 * Polycera japonica Baba, 1949
 * Protaeolidiella atra Baba, 1955
 * Roboastra luteolineata (Baba, 1936)
 * Rostanga risbeci Baba, 1991
 * Sagaminopteron ornatum Tokioka & Baba, 1964
 * Sakuraeolis enosimensis (Baba, 1930)
 * Sakuraeolis sp. Baba, 1965 In: Baba & Hamatani, 1965
 * Siphopteron flavum (Tokioka & Baba, 1964)
 * Siphopteron fuscum (Baba & Tokioka, 1965)
 * Stiliger smaragdinus Baba, 1949
 * Stiliger subviridis Baba, 1949
 * Tambja amakusana Baba, 1987
 * Tambja kushimotoensis Baba, 1987
 * Tambja sagamiana (Baba, 1955)
 * Thecacera picta Baba, 1972
 * Thordisa parva Baba, 1938
 * Thordisa sanguinea Baba, 1955
 * Thorunna florens (Baba, 1949)
 * Thuridilla livida (Baba, 1955)
 * Thuridilla splendens (Baba, 1949)
 * Trapania japonica (Baba, 1935) [Drepania]
 * Tritonia insulae (Baba, 1955)
 * Tritoniopsilla alba Baba, 1949

Taxa named in honor of him
Genera:
 * Babaina (synonym of Thorunna) Odhner, 1968
 * Babakina Roller, 1973
 * Babiella Risso-Dominguez, 1964

Species:
 * Linguella babai Tchang-Si, 1934
 * Marionopsis babai Odhner, 1936
 * Elysia babai Pruvot-Fol, 1945
 * Okenia babai Hamatani, 1961
 * Tamanovalva babai Burn, 1965
 * Flabellina babai Schmekel, 1970
 * Cyerce kikutarobabai Hamatani, 1976
 * Chelidonura babai Gosliner, 1988
 * Phyllidia babai Brunckhorst 1993
 * Hypselodoris babai Gosliner & Behrens 2000
 * Philine babai Valdés, 2008