Satyu Yamaguti

was a Japanese parasitologist, entomologist, and helminthologist. He was a specialist of mosquitoes and helminths such as digeneans, monogeneans, cestodes, acanthocephalans and nematodes. He also worked on the parasitic crustaceans Copepoda and Branchiura. Satyu Yamaguti wrote more than 60 scientific papers and, more importantly, several huge monographs which are still in use by scientists all over the world and were cited over 1,000 times each.

Education and career Satyu Yamaguti was born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, 21 April 1894.

He graduated from Okayama Medical College (1918), studied pathology at Tokyo University (1918-1925) and parasitology at the Institut für Tropenkrankheiten in Hamburg, Germany (1925-1926). He received his MD from Tokyo University in 1926 and was Dr. Sc. of Kyoto University in 1935. He was lecturer in parasitology in Kyoto University (1927-1943), parasitologist at the Naval Institute of Tropical Hygiene in Macassar (then "Celebes" – now Sulawesi, Indonesia) with the Japanese Navy (1943-1944), and special consultant of the Malaria Survey Detachment of the US Army (1946-1950). He became Professor of parasitology in Okayama University Medical School (1950), was a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii (1962-1966) and a Graduate Professor of Biology at Tulane University (1968-1969).

He wrote 166 papers and 26 books during his lifetime. This is a monogenean of the family Capsalidae, parasite on the gills of deep-sea fish of the family Lutjanidae.

Obituaries Guillermina R. Caballero (1976), Satyu Yamaguti (1894-1976). Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, 47 (2), 211-212 (dated 1976, published 1978) Anonymous (1976), Necrologia, Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Satyu Yamaguti. Revista Ibérica de Parasitologia, 36(1-2), 159-161 The Meguro Parasitological Museum News, 1976, 121,6-13 (in Japanese) PDF Bauer, O. N., Gussev, A. V., Kurochkin, Yu. V., Polyansy, Yu. I. (1977) Professor Satyu Yamaguti (1894-1976). Folia Parasitologica, 24, 105-106.