Tokiharu Abe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tokiharu Abe

Japanese ichthyologist

Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1911

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 09-Aug-1996

Profession: zoologist, ichthyologist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Tokiharu Abe (?? ??, Abe Tokiharu, April 3, 1911, in Tokyo – August 9, 1996, in Tokyo) was a Japanese ichthyologist.
He worked for the University Museum of the University of Tokyo.
Abe became notable for his taxonomic studies on the pufferfish (Tetraodontidae, Teleostei) from East Asia, in particular the genus Takifugu which he first described in 1949.
He described further species like Sagamichthys abei, Centroscyllium kamoharai and Fugu obscurus.
Species like Tetraodon abei and Chaunax abei were named in his honour.
Abe was an honorary foreign member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. In 1996, he died from a cerebral hemorrhage in a hospital in Tokyo.