Dr. Tsunemi Kubodera is a Japanese zoologist with the National Museum of Nature and Science. He and his crew are known to be the first people to ever photograph and film a live giant squid in its natural habitat.

Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Kubodera has published the following:

Kubodera, T., U. Piatkowski, T. Okutani, and M. R. Clarke. 1998. Taxonomy and zoogeography of the family Onychoteuthidae (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida). Pp. 277–291 in N. A. Voss, R. B. Toll, and M. Vecchione, eds. Systematics and Biogeography of Cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586.