Education
University of Tokyo.
阿部 宗明
University of Tokyo.
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.
In 1996 he died from a cerebral hemorrhage in a hospital in Tokyo. J. J. World War II J. Description of a new species ofBeryx, J. Description of a new species of lutjanid fish of the genusParacaesio from J., 1961–1962.
J. Description of a new squaloid shark,Centroscyllium kamoharai, from J. and West. North., 4th Ser., 39: 47–53. and Y. and Y. and H. Description of a new deep-sea fish of the genusRondeletia from J., South. Description of a new nomeid fish from J., R. J., R. J., M. Description of a new garden eel from.
Abe was an honorary foreign member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.