Yoshio Abe

Yoshio Abe (Japanese: 阿部 余四男 Hepburn: Abe Yoshio, 1891–1960) was a professor of zoology at Karahuto Normal University.

He was the first Japanese scientist to study kinorhynchs, and one such animal, Dracoderes abei, was named after him.^[1] Also named after him was Abe's Whiskered Bat, Myotis abei Yoshikura 1944, as a tribute from one of his students.

References

1. Behlens, Bo, Watkins, Michael. and Grayson, Michael Eponym Dictionary of Mammals, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-801893-04-9. p. 1