Eizi Matuda
{{Short description|Mexican botanist (1894–1978)}}
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| name = Eizi Matuda
| image = Eizi Matuda.JPG
| caption = Bust of Eizi Matuda in the botanical garden of the Cosmovitral.
| birth_date = 1894
| birth_place = Nagasaki Prefecture, Empire of Japan
| death_date = 12 February 1978
| death_place = Lima, Peru
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| spouse = Miduho Kaneko de Matuda
| citizenship = Japan
Mexico
| fields = Botany
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| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|Taihoku Imperial University
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{{nihongo|Eiji Matsuda|松田英二|Matsuda Eiji}} (1894–1978) was a Mexican botanist of Japanese origin. In scholarly works, his name is generally romanised as "Eizi Matuda" following the "Kunrei" system.
Personal life
Matuda and his wife, Miduho Kaneko de Matuda, were naturalized Mexican citizens and had five children.{{cite book|author=García, Jerry|title=Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897-1945|date=2014|place=Tucson|publisher=University of Arizona Press|isbn=978-0816530250|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=1oLfAgAAQBAJ&dq=Eizi+Matuda&pg=PA155 155]}}
Legacy
In 1956, a cactus species native to Mexico was named in his honor, the Mammillaria matudae. The genus Matudina in the sunflower family is also named in his honor.{{cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13162974#page/182/mode/1up |title=King, Robert Merrill; Robinson, Harold Ernest (1973). "Studies in the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). CXIII. A New Genus, Matudina". Phytologia 26 (3): 170-173, figures 1–2|year=1973 |volume=26 |publisher=biodiversitylibrary.org|accessdate=2015-10-24}}
Two species and one subspecies of reptiles are named in his honor: Abronia matudai (Matuda's arboreal alligator lizard), Anolis matudai (Matuda's anole), and Pseudelaphe flavirufa matudai (Matuda's ratsnake).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Matuda", p. 171). Two frogs are named after him: Craugastor matudai (Matuda's robber frog) and Plectrohyla matudai (Matuda's spikethumb frog).{{cite book|author1=Beolens, Bo|author2=Watkins, Michael|author3=Grayson, Michael|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QJY3BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA138|date=22 April 2013|place=Exeter, England|publisher=Pelagic Publishing|isbn=978-1-907807-44-2|pages=138}}
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Category:Japanese emigrants to Mexico