Eiji Matsuda (松田英二, Matsuda Eiji) (1894–1978) was a Mexican botanist of Japanese origin. In scholarly works, his name is generally romanised as "Eizi Matuda" following the "Kunrei" system.
Eizi Matuda | |
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 Bust of Eizi Matuda in the botanical garden of the Cosmovitral. | |
| Citizenship | Mexico |
| Alma mater | |
| Spouse | Miduho Kaneko de Matuda |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
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Biography
editMatuda and his wife, Miduho Kaneko de Matuda, were naturalized Mexican citizens and had five Mexico-born children.[1]
Legacy
editIn 1956, a species of cactus native to Mexico was named in his honor, the Mammillaria matudae. The genus Matudina in the sunflower family is also named in his honor.[2]
Two species and one subspecies of reptiles are named in his honor: Abronia matudai (Matuda's arboreal alligator lizard), Anolis matudai (Matuda's anole), and Pseudelaphe flavirufa matudai (Matuda's ratsnake).[3] Two frogs are named after him: Craugastor matudai (Matuda's robber frog) and Plectrohyla matudai (Matuda's spikethumb frog).[4]
References
edit- ^ García, Jerry (2014). Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897-1945. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0816530250.
- ^ King, Robert Merrill; Robinson, Harold Ernest (1973). "Studies in the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). CXIII. A New Genus, Matudina". Phytologia 26 (3): 170-173, figures 1–2. Vol. 26. biodiversitylibrary.org. 1973. Retrieved 2015-10-24.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Matuda", p. 171).
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (22 April 2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-907807-44-2.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Matuda.