Madoka Sasaki

Madoka Sasaki (佐々木 望, Sasaki Madoka, 1883–1927) was a Japanese zoologist, who is known for his work on the cephalopods of Japan, as well as other groups such as salamanders.^[1]

Academic career

Sasaki was Professor of Zoology in the Fishery Department of the College of Agriculture at Tohoku Imperial University, Sapporo, Japan.^[2]

Sasaki died in 1927 and his major work A monograph of the dibranchiate cephalopods of the Japanese and adjacent waters was published posthumously in 1929.^[3] It was based largely on his studies of the cephalopod collections of the Zoology Department of the "Tokyo University Museum", many of which he collected himself.^[2]

Honors

The species Sebastodes sasakii, Octopus sasakii and Sepia sasakii are among the taxa that bear names that honour Sasaki.^[4]