Yu Yokoya

Yu Yokoya
Born 18??
Japan
Died 1967
Nationality Japanese
Fields Marine biology
Institutions Imperial University of Tokyo (Faculty of Agriculture)

Yu Yokoya (18??-1967) was a Japanese marine biologist. He worked at least after 1917 on Japanese decapod crustaceans for the Fisheries Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo Imperial Univ.

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The cephalopod name Loligo yokoyai M. Ishikawa, 1925 may possibly be in his honour. The thalassinidean name Upogebia yokoyai Makarov, 1938? is also in his honour.[2]

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