was a Japanese malacologist. His father, Yoichirō Hirase

Yoichirō Hirase

was a Japanese malacologist. His son, Shintarō Hirase, was also a malacologist.Majority of his valuable collection of molluscs have been destroyed during the World War II.- Bibliography :* . 貝類手引草 .- External links :* at Internet Archive...

, (1859-1925) was also a malacologist.

Shintarō Hirase was a teaching zoologist at Seikei College.

Collection

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. 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.

Taxa described

• Aglaja iwasai Hirase, 1936 was synonymized with Philinopsis cyanea (Martens, 1879) by William B. Rudman
  William B. Rudman
  Dr. William B. Rudman, usually known as Bill Rudman , from New Zealand and Australia, is a biologist, a researcher who studies molluscs, in other words, a malacologist...
  
   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
  Xenophora tenuis
  Xenophora tenuis is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells....
  
  Hirase, 1934 is a synonym of Xenophora tenuis Fulton, 1983

Further reading

• Kuroda T. (1940). [Memorials to the late Dr. Shintaro Hirase]. Venus 10: 1-40.

External links

• works by Shintarō Hirase at CiNii (Zasshi Kiji Sakuin
  Zasshi Kiji Sakuin
  Zasshi Kiji Sakuin , often called Zassaku in short, is a searchable database of scholarly articles in Japanese. The database, produced by the National Diet Library in 1948, catalogs selected articles from NDL's extensive collection of periodicals...
  
  )
• http://www.geocities.jp/opisthobranchialsocietyofjapan/Hirase.html