BY SHIGEKO OOISHI Faculty of Fisheries, Mie University, Tsu, Mie 514, Japan
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NOTES AND NEWS SUEO M. SHIINO (1908-1978) BY SHIGEKO OOISHI Faculty of Fisheries, Mie University, Tsu, Mie 514, Japan Professor Sueo M. Shiino, Advisory editor of "Crustaceana", passed away on September 20, 1978, at Mie University Hospital. A distinguished carcinologist, a highly responsible researcher, and a much loved friend of his colleagues and students, Dr. Shiino has left them a much greater legacy than can be found in his - 137 publications the legacy of a devoted scientist, teacher and friend. He died before the publication of his last great work, a taxonomic paper on the sub- antarctic tanaid crustaceans collected by French scientists on board the survey ship "Marion-Dufresne". At the time of his death, he was director of Shima Marineland in Mie Prefecture. Born on the 1st of January, 1908 in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Professor Shiino began his studies as a zoologist in 1927 in the Zoology Section, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University and graduated from the University in 1930, with a Master of Science degree. While studying at the University, he was trained by Professor Taku Komai and Professor Yo K. Okada who were pioneers in the field of zoology in Japan. After graduating from the University he stayed in the same Section as a researcher for one year. In 1931 Shiino was appointed assistant scientist at the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyoto University. He stayed at Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, where the Laboratory was located, for eleven years, and was appointed lecturer there in 1941. In 1934, while he was at Shirahama, he married Yukiko Ito of Nagoya. They got two daughters and two sons. During this period, Shiino published 21 studies, mainly on the taxonomy of benthic tanaidaceans and parasitic crusta- ceans such as bopyrids (Isopoda, Epicaridea), rhizocephalans and copepods, and also the embryology of the mantis shrimps Syuilla oratoria occurring in Kasaoka, Okayama Prefecture. The latter study, under the direction of Professor T. Komai, yielded him a Doctor of Science degree from Kyoto University in 1941. One can see that the basis of Dr. Shiino's many important studies in carcinology was laid in this period. In 1942 Dr. Shiino was appointed senior research scientist at the Research In- stitute for Natural Resources ("Shigenken" in Japanese) in Tokyo by the Ministry 174 of Education. During this period, although he took up an interest in marine wood- boring crustaceans such as isopods (Limnoriidae and Sphaeromatidae) and amphi- pods (Cheluridae), he still continued to study the taxonomy of bopyrids. He finished two noteworthy studies in systematics (Rhizocephala of Japan) and in embryology (the embryonic development of Pcmulirus japonicus) during the five years he was at the Institute. In 1947 Dr. Shiino joined the faculty of the Preparatory Course of the Medical School at the Prefectural University of Mie, and in 1948 he was appointed professor and also head of the Course. One year before the Preparatory Course was closed, in 1950, the Faculty of Fisheries was established in the same University. As the founder of the newly established department, Professor Shiino actively endeavored to build the faculty house and to increase the number of the faculty members. Before he retired from the University in 1970 he had been elected as Dean of the Faculty twice (1961-1963 ; 1965-1967 ) . While working at the University he concentrated on the study of the taxonomy of copepods parasitic on fishes. He described more than 200 species of the copepods (including seven new genera and about 86 new species) from the Indo-Pacific Ocean. However, his former interest in the parasitic isopods and benthic tanaidaceans did not diminish. Before his retirement, he described some 75 new species of the suborder Epicaridea from various coasts of Japan; in 1952 and 1965 he brought foreward his hypothesis regarding the phylogeny of the genera within the family Bopyridae. In addition to his scientific research, he was active in teaching fisheries students and in dealing with fisheries scientists or marine biologists. He was engaged in publishing three books, "Inverte- brate Embryology" (1957), writing the chapter of Crustacea; "Systematic Zoology" (1964), writing the entire volume of Crustacea; and "Fisheries Invertebrate Zoology" (1964), all of which were written in Japanese for his colleagues and students and have been highly appraised by them. In 1970, the year of his retirement, Professor Shiino was called upon to become the Director of Shima Marineland which was founded in March of that year. He started to make a list of English names of Japanese fishes and published it in the first number of "Science Report of Shima Marineland", which he edited. Further- more, he made a list of the common names of the fishes of the world, particularly those prevailing in the English-speaking nations. He keenly felt the need to have these lists for the many visitors from abroad that came to the Marineland. At the same time his studies in the taxonomy of the parasitic isopods and benthic tanaida- ceans continued until his death in September, 1978. It was his honor to give a lecture on the phylogeny of bopyrids in the presence of the Emperor who visited Kashikojima, Mie Prefecture, in November, 1951. He was further honored in November, 1954 when, with several other Japanese taxo- nomists, he was invited to the Imperial Palace, where he gave a lecture in the presence of the Emperor on a new cryptoniscan parasite, Cyproyai.rcu.r ovali.r (Iso- poda, Epicaridea), found in the ostracod Cypridina hzlgendor fi from Misaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. On the request of His Majesty, he named more than 20 .