Kakichi Mitsukuri

was a Japanese zoologist.

Biography Kakichi Mitsukuri was born in Edo. In 1873 he came to the United States, where he received a Ph.D. degree from Yale in 1879 and from Johns Hopkins in 1883. He was appointed professor at the of the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1882 and councilor of the university in 1893. Mitsukuri also brought the "holotype" goblin shark to the California Academy of Sciences where the genus was named after himself and Asian wildlife collector Alan Owston, with the scientific name Mitsukurina owstonii.

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Taxa described by him See :Category:Taxa named by Kakichi Mitsukuri

Taxa named in his honor Mitsukurina is a genus of mackerel shark in the family Mitsukurinidae. It contains one extant species, the goblin shark (M. owstoni) and more extinct species. The genus was described by American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan in 1898 and named in his honor.