Seitarō Gotō (1867–1935) was a Japanese scientist, known for his works on the

Monogenea Monogeneans are a group of ectoparasitic flatworms commonly found on the skin, gills, or fins of fish. They have a direct lifecycle and do not require an intermediate host. Adults are hermaphrodites, meaning they have both male and female reprod ...

, Goto, Seitaro (1899). Notes on some exotic species of ectoparasitic trematodes (Vol. 12). Imperial University of Tokyo a class of parasitic

flatworm The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegme ...

s which are

ectoparasite Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson ha ...

s of fishes. He also worked on other invertebrates, such as

Coelenterates Coelenterata is a term encompassing the animal phyla Cnidaria (coral animals, true jellies, sea anemones, sea pens, and their relatives) and Ctenophora (comb jellies). The name comes , referring to the hollow body cavity common to these two phyla ...

Goto, Seitaro (1903). The Craspedote Medusa Olindias and some of its natural allies. New York. and

Echinoderms An echinoderm () is any member of the phylum Echinodermata (). The adults are recognisable by their (usually five-point) radial symmetry, and include starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers, as well as the ...

.Goto, S. (1914). A descriptive monograph of Japanese asteroidea. Tokyo, Imperial University of Tokyo. Fujita, T. (2008). Echinoderms in Sagami Bay: past and present studies. In Origin and Evolution of Natural Diversity: Proceedings of the International Symposium, The Origin and Evolution of Natural Diversity, held from 1-5 October 2007 in Sapporo, Japan (pp. 117-123). 21st Century COE for Neo-Science of Natural History, Hokkaido University
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Career

Seitarō Gotō was a student at the Department of Animal Science at the Imperial University of Science and was graduated in 1890. He studied in the United States in 1894, at

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consiste ...

, and then at

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. After his return to Japan in 1896, he became professor at Daiichi High School. He became professor at the

Tokyo Imperial University , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

in 1909. In 1920, he was appointed head of the

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

's Department of Science. In 1929 he created the Japan Parasitology Society and became its first President.

Eponymous taxa

Several taxa were named in honour of Seitarō Gotō. These include the

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

'' Gotocotyla'' Ishii, 1936 and the family

Gotocotylidae Mazocraeidea is an order in the subclass Polyopisthocotylea within class Monogenea. The species of this order have various structures in the clamps of their posterior attachment organ, including additional sclerites in the Gastrocotylidae and re ...

Yamaguti, 1963Yamaguti S. 1963. Systema Helminthum Volume IV Monogenea and Aspidocotylea. Interscience, a division of John Wiley & Sons, New York & London, 699 pp. (

). A number of species were also named after him, including ''Acanthocephalus gotoi'' Van Cleave, 1925 (

Acanthocephala Acanthocephala (Greek , ', thorn + , ', head) is a phylum of parasitic worms known as acanthocephalans, thorny-headed worms, or spiny-headed worms, characterized by the presence of an eversible proboscis, armed with spines, which it uses to p ...

), ''Caryophyllaeus gotoi'' Motomura, 1927 (

Cestoda Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes). Most of the species—and the best-known—are those in the subclass Eucestoda; they are ribbon-like worms as adults, known as tapeworms. Their bodies consist of m ...

), and ''Microcotyle gotoi'' Yamaguti, 1934 (

Drawings of Monogeneans by Seitarō Gotō

His 1894 book includes several plates of monogeneans; some are below. Goto 1894 - Studies on the Ectoparasitic Trematodes of Japan - Plate 1.png, Plate 1 of the book Goto 1894 - Studies on the Ectoparasitic Trematodes of Japan - Plate 2.png, Plate 2 of the book Goto 1894 - Studies on the Ectoparasitic Trematodes of Japan - Plate 3.png, Plate 3 of the book Goto 1894 - Studies on the Ectoparasitic Trematodes of Japan - Plate 4.png, Plate 4 of the book

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goto, Seitaro Japanese parasitologists Japanese zoologists 1867 births 1935 deaths