Here are a few of the works he has written: Habe, Tadashige 1971 - Shells of Japan, Hoikusha Press, 141 pp, SB(S) Habe, Tagashige & Kiyoshi Ito 1965 - Shells of the World in Color Vol I: The Northern Pacific, Series #43, Hoikusha Pub (1973 Rpt) in Jap, 176 pp, 56 cpl, BX DJ HB(M) Habe, Tagashige & Sadao Kosuge 1965 - Shells of the World in Color Vol II: The Tropical Pacific, Series #44, Hoikusha Pub (1973 Rpt) in Jap, 194 pp, 68 cpl, BX DJ HB(M) Habe, Tadashige 1968 - Shells of the Western Pacific in Color, Vol II, Rev Ed (1964), Hoikusha Press, 233 pp, 11457 cil, 66 cpl, DJ HB(L) Habe, Tadashige & Sadao Kosuge 1967 - Shellfish, Standard Full-color Illustrated Books, Vol 3, National science Museum of Japan, Hoikusha Press, 225 pp, 64 cpl, author insert, Japanese w/ Latin index, DJ HB BX (M) ____________________ Professor Tadashige Habe died of natural causes in Tokyo on December 29th, aged 85. One of the great men of Japanese malacology, he was responsible not only for a vast body of literature but for teaching an entire generation of researchers. He is best known abroad for his illustrated books on Japanese shells, both his own work and those co-authored with Sadao Kosuge and Takashi Okutani.