Eizi Matuda

{{Short description|Mexican botanist (1894–1978)}} {{Infobox scientist | 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 | children = | spouse = Miduho Kaneko de Matuda | citizenship = Japan<br/>[[Mexico]] | fields = [[Botany]] | workplaces = {{Plainlist| * [[National Autonomous University of Mexico]] }} | alma_mater = {{Plainlist|[[Taihoku Imperial University]] * [[University of Tokyo]] }} | doctoral_advisor = | thesis_title = | thesis_year = | academic_advisors = | notable_students = | known_for = | awards = }}

{{nihongo|'''Eiji Matsuda'''|松田英二|Matsuda Eiji}} (1894–1978) was a [[Japanese Mexicans|Mexican]] [[botanist]] of Japanese origin. In scholarly works, his name is generally [[Romanization|romanised]] as "'''Eizi Matuda'''" following the [[Kunrei-shiki|"Kunrei" system]].

==Personal life== Matuda and his wife, Miduho Kaneko de Matuda, were naturalized Mexican citizens and had five children.<ref name="Garcia">{{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]}}</ref>

==Legacy== In 1956, a [[cactus]] species native to Mexico was named in his honor, the ''[[Mammillaria matudae]]''. The genus ''[[Matudina]]'' in the [[Asteraceae|sunflower family]] is also named in his honor.<ref name="biodiversitylibrary">{{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}}</ref>

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 ''[[Yellow-red rat snake|Pseudelaphe flavirufa matudai]]'' (Matuda's ratsnake).<ref>[[Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]]; [[Michael Watkins (zoologist)|Watkins, Michael]]; [[Michael Grayson|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).</ref> Two frogs are named after him: ''[[Craugastor matudai]]'' (Matuda's robber frog) and ''[[Plectrohyla matudai]]'' (Matuda's spikethumb frog).<ref name="BeolensWatkins2013">{{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}} xiii + 244 pp. (Matuda, p. 138).</ref>

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