# Kikutaro Baba

Kikutaro Baba (馬場 菊太郎, Baba Kikutarō, 11 July 1905 Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan – 30 November 2001 Japan) was a Japanese malacologist. He was the leading researcher on sea slugs and bubble snails, opisthobranch gastropod mollusks 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. He died of pneumonia in hospital in Japan on 30 November 2001.

## 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