Kikutaro Baba

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.

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 japonica Baba, 1937 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