Background
His father, Yoichirō Hirase, (1859–1925) was also a malacologist. From the collection of Shintarō Hirase and much more valuable collection by his father Yoichirō Hirase have survived only about 30% with about 5000 specimen.
平瀬 信太郎
His father, Yoichirō Hirase, (1859–1925) was also a malacologist. From the collection of Shintarō Hirase and much more valuable collection by his father Yoichirō Hirase have survived only about 30% with about 5000 specimen.
University of Tokyo; Kyoto University.
Shintarō Hirase was a teaching zoologist at Seikei College. Majority of the collection was destroyed by incendiary bombs in the house of Shintarō Hirase and in the Research Institute for Natural Resources in Tokyo during bombing of Tokyo. The collection have been stored in the Research Institute for Natural Resources in Tokyo in 1948.
Aglaja iwasai Hirase, 1936 was synonymized with Philinopsis cyanea (Martens, 1879) by William B. Rudman in 1972.
Babylonia pallida Hirase, 1934 is a synonym of Babylonia kirana Habe, 1965
Berthella gotoi Hirase, 1936
Oscanius testudinarius Hirase 1927
Ostrea circumpicta Hirase, 1930 is a synonym of Crassostrea nippona (Seki, 1934)
Xenophora tenuis Hirase, 1934 is a synonym of Xenophora tenuis Fulton, 1983.