Jiro Tanaka (born 1950), phycologist.

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Taxon names authored

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• 11 taxon names authored by Jiro Tanaka

Publications

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• Tanaka, J. & Chihara, M. 1981. Taxonomic study of the Japanese crustose brown algae (4) Ralfsia (Ralfsiaceae, Ralfsiales) (Part 3). Journal of Japanese Botany 56: 97–104.

• Tanaka, J. & Chihara, M. 1981. Taxonomic study of the Japanese crustose brown algae (5) Endoplura and Diplura (Ralfsiaceae, Ralfsiales). Journal of Japanese Botany 56: 153–160. Reference page. 

• Tanaka, J. & Chihara, M. 1982. Morphology and taxonomy of Mesospora schmidtii Weber van Bosse, Mesosporaceae fam. nov. (Ralfsiales, Phaeophyceae). Phycologia 21(3): 382–389, 10 figs, 1 table. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-21-3-382.1 Reference page. 
• Tanaka, J. & Chihara, M. 1984. A new species of Myelophycus (M. cavum sp. nov.) with special reference to the systematic position of the genus (Dictyosiphonales, Phaeophyceae). Phykos 23: 12–162.

• Tanaka, J. 1991. A new species of Spatoglossum (S. crassum sp. nov.; Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) from Japan. Phycologia 30: 574–581. Reference page. 

• Tanaka, J. 1992. Morphology and taxonomy of Spatoglossum latum sp. nov. (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) from Japan. Korean Journal of Phycology 7(1): 23–30, 19 figs, 1 table. Reference page. 

• Kamiya, M., Tanaka, J. & Hara, Y. 1997. Comparative morphology, crossability, and taxonomy within the Caloglossa continua (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) complex from the western Pacific. Journal of Phycology 33: 97–105, 18 figs, 3 tables. Reference page. 

• Kamiya, M., Tanaka, J., King, R.J., West, J.A., Zuccarello, G.C. & Kawai, H. 1999. Reproductive and genetic distinction between broad and narrow entities of Caloglossa continua (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 38: 356–367, 29 figs, 3 tables. Reference page. 

• Sun, Z., Hanyuda, T., Lim, P.-E., Tanaka. J., Gurgel, C.F.D. & Kawai, H. 2012. Taxonomic revision of the genus Lobophora (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) based on morphological evidence and analyses rbcl and cox3 gene sequences. Phycologia 51(5): 500–512. PDF Reference page.