Mammal Society of Japan

The Mammal Society of Japan (日本哺乳類学会, Nihon Honyūrui Gakkai) is a Japanese society established in 1987 to promote the study of mammals.[1][3]

Mammal Society of Japan (MSJ) General Incorporated Association
一般社団法人日本哺乳類学会
Formation1987[1]
PurposeMammalogy
Headquarters358-5, Yamabuki-chō (ja), Shinjuku, Tōkyō, Japan
Coordinates35°42′33″N 139°43′46″E
Membership
1,100[1]
Key people
Oshida Tatsuo (押田龍夫) (President)[2]
WebsiteOfficial website

History

Upon its establishment, the Society united two predecessor organizations, the Mammalogical Society of Japan (日本哺乳動物学会), founded in 1949, and the Mammal Research Group (哺乳類研究グループ), established in 1963, which itself grew out of the Murid Research Group (ネズミ研究グループ), established in 1955.[1][4] The Society, however, traces its origins back to the activities of the refounded Zoological Society of Japan (日本動物学会) in 1923, and as such celebrated its ninetieth anniversary in 2013.[1][4]

Publications

The Society publishes the quarterly journal Mammal Study, successor to the Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan, in English, and, in Japanese, the biannual Mammalian Science (哺乳類科学, Honyūrui Kagaku).[1] It also oversaw publication, in 2015, of the second edition of The Wild Mammals of Japan.[1][5] A 2018 supplement to Mammalian Science comprises the Japanese names for world mammal taxa, based on the third edition of Mammal Species of the World.[6][7]

See also

References
  1. "About MSJ". The Mammal Society of Japan. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  2. 理事長のごあいさつ [Message from the President] (in Japanese). The Mammal Society of Japan. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  3. "Mammal Society of Japan". BioOne. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  4. Kaneko Yukibumi [in Japanese] (2018). 日本哺乳類学会1987年設立までの歩み―戦後の哺乳類学2組織は如何につくられ如何に合併したか― [A Prehistory of Nihon Honyurui Gakkai (Mammalogical Society of Japan) Before 1987: How and Why Two Mammalogy Organizations were Established After World War II and United to Form the Society]. Mammalian Science 哺乳類科学 (in Japanese). The Mammal Society of Japan. 58 (2): 289–331. doi:10.11238/mammalianscience.58.289.
  5. Ohdachi, S. D.; et al., eds. (2015). The Wild Mammals of Japan (2 ed.). Shoukadoh and The Mammal Society of Japan. p. viii. ISBN 978-4879746917.
  6. Kawada Shinichirō [in Japanese]; et al. (2018). 世界哺乳類標準和名目録 [Catalogue of Standard Japanese Names for the Mammals of the World]. Mammalian Science 哺乳類科学 (in Japanese). The Mammal Society of Japan. 58 (Supplement): 1–53. doi:10.11238/mammalianscience.58.S1.
  7. 世界哺乳類標準和名リスト [List of Standard Japanese Names for the Mammals of the World] (in Japanese). The Mammal Society of Japan. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
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