Proceedings
Papers Presented at the 40th Annual Meetingin Sapporo, October 6‒8, 2007

Taxonomy and Morphology
An undescribed species of the genus Onigocia collected from the Coral and Tasman Seas. Hisashi
ImamuraValidity of a cottid fish, Stelgistrum mororane as the genus Icelus. Osamu Tsuruoka and Mamoru
Yabe
On the appropriate common Japanese names for Pacific and Atlantic Bluefin Tunas. Fumihito Muto
and Harumi Yamada
An undescribed genus and species of the Stichaeidae with elongated paired fins, from the northern
Sea of Japan. Gento Shinohara and Mamoru Yabe
Taxonomic review of the species of Kyphosus, Kyphosidae, from the eastern Pacific and Atlantic.
Keiichi Sakai and Tetsuji Nakabo
Taxonomic review of the genus Pleuronichthys from the East Asia. Shotaro Suzuki, Takatoshi
Kawashima, and Tetsuji Nakabo
An undescribed species of Samariscus (Samaridae, Pleuronectiformes) collected from New
Caledonia. Toshio Kawai, Kunio Amaoka, and Bernard Seret
Two New Batfishes (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae) from the West Pacific Ocean. Hsuan-Ching
Ho, Hiromitsu Endo, Kazunobu Sakamaki, and Kwang-Tsao Shao
An undescribed species of the genus Stolephorus (Engraulidae) from North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Seishi Kimura, Kosuke Hori, and Koichi Shibukawa
Discovery of a crucian carp with the peculiar morphology from the Yufutsu Moor, Hokkaido, Japan.
Takehiko Ito, Tomohiko Fujita, and Kazumi Hosoya
Cephalic anatomy of Formosan stripe dace Candidia barbata. Toshihiko Morimune, Toyoaki
Fukuda, Hiroshi Ashiwa, and Kazumi Hosoya

1Comparative study on the intestines in the species of the cyprinid subfamily Acheilognathinae.
Hitomi Yamano and Kazumi Hosoya

Phylogeny and Genetics
Genetic and morphological divergences between south population and north population of Oryzias
latipes in Yura river drainage. Kouki Kume, Shinich Yoshida, and Kazumi Hosoya
Brain and cranial nerves of Careproctus trachysoma with special references to the lateral line
system. Takeshi Kato, Naoyuki Yamamoto, and Hiroaki Somiya
Acanthogobius and Tridentiger (Teleostei: Gobiidae) in California compared to original Asian
populations. Natascha Miljkovic
Development and evolution of the fish skeleton: impacts of developmental, molecular genetic andgenomic investigation on our understanding of how the fish skeleton develops and evolves.
Tsutomu Miyake
Population structure of sympatric markless and marked red-spotted masu salmon (Oncorhynchus
masou ishikawae) inferred from AFLP analysis. Takuya Kondou, Hiroshi Takahashi, andNaohiko Takeshita
Genetic population structure of Siganus spinus and S. guttatus collected from Okinawan waters
based on sequence analysis of the mitochondrial DNA control region. Kensuke Iwamoto, Akihiro
Takemura, Tetsuo Yoshino, and Hideyuki Imai
Mitochondrial sequence data suggests several local populations of sandfish (Arctoscopus
japonicus) around Hokkaido. Shigeru M. Shirai
Analysis of Ancient Parentage in Sexually Reproducing Tetraploid Cobitis loaches. Kenji Saitoh,
Wei-Jen Chen, Jun Nakajima, and Richard L. Mayden
Genetic population structure in North-kanto population of Lefua echigonia. Hiroshi Aiki, Katsuhiko
Takayama, Nobuhiro Mano, Hiroshi Komaki, and Hitomi
Polymorphism with highly divergent mitochondrial DNA lineages within Pseudogobio esocinus
populations in central Honshu, Japan. Katsutoshi Watanabe, Koji Tominaga, Ryo Kakioka, andSeiichi Mori
Phylogeography of Rhodeus atremius atremius and R. a. suigensis in Japan. Takuya Miyake, Jun
Nakajima, Norio Onikura, Shigetoyo Ikemoto, and Kouichi Kawamura
2Introduced Rhodeus sericeus amarus in Northern Italy: cytogenetic characterization by several
staining techniques and NORs polymorphism. Angelo Libertini, Massimiliano Pampin, LucianaSola, Annarita Rossi, Koji Iijima , and Takayoshi Ueda
Diversification of T1R2-type putative taste receptor genes in threespine stickleback. Yasuyuki
Hashiguchi and Mutsumi Nishida
GEDIMAP: A database for genetic diversity of the Japanese freshwater fishes. Katsutoshi
Watanabe, Yuichi Kano, Hiroshi Takahashi, and Ryo Kakioka
Spino-occipital and spinal nerves in Tetraodontiformes. Masanori Nakae and Kunio Sasaki
Phylogenetic systematics of the family Sillaginidae. Tatsuya Kaga, Hisashi Imamura, and Kazuhiro
NakayaCypriniformes Tree of Life (CToL): A progress report based on whole mitogenome sequences.
Masaki Miya, Tetsuya Sado, Kenji Saitoh, and Mutsumi Nishida
Molecular systematics of the deep-sea alepocephaliform fishes (Teleostei) based on whole
mitogenome sequencesphylogeny of fishes. Sèbastien Lavouè, Masaki Miya, Jan Poulsen, Peter
Møller, and Mutsumi Nishida

Distribution and Fish Fauna
Distribution of native medaka population in the Yamato River system in Nara Prefecture andintrogression from himedaka (commercial orange-red colored strain). Naoto Koyama, Kouki
Kume, and Tadao Kitagawa
Genetic research on distribution of Chinese muddy loach in Japan. Hiroaki Maruyama, Yasushi
Harada, and Tadao Kitagawa
Shallow-sea fishes of the Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan. Mamoru Yabe, Takahiro Nobetsu,
Yuko Kuzume, Osamu Tsuruoka, Fumihito Tashiro, Ryohei Sasahara, Mitsumi Yamamoto,
Tomoyuki Yamanaka, and Tomoki Yahata
Fish fauna of the Isuzu River, Mie Prefecture. Tatsuya Sato, Taiga Yodo, and Seishi Kimura
Rocal group of amago salmon Onchorhynchus masou ishikawae originated in Izu Peninsula.
Naomasa Kawashima, Tetsuya Akutsu, and Tsuguhito Shimomura
Endangered crisis of a netted bittering, Acheilognathus typus (Cyprinidae). Hideki Sugiyama and
Ryoichi Arai
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The present status of invasion of alien fish species in Inle Lake, Myanmar. Musikasinthorn Prachya

Physiology and Histology
Aerial respiratory vasculatures in the intertidal air-breathing eel goby, Odontamblyopus lacepedii(Gobiidae: Amblyopinae). Tomas Gonzales
The sonic system of Priacanthidae. Daisuke Nishihara, Atsushi Onuki, Naoyuki Yamamoto, andHiroaki Somiya
Sonic system of the ocellated waspfish, Apistus carinatus (Scorpaenidae, Scorpaeniformes).
Atsushi Onuki, Naoyuki Yamamoto, and Hiroaki
L-kynurenine concentrations of rearing water in some salmonid species. Hidenobu Yambe, Shohei
Konno, Shoji Kitamura, Miho Yamada, Toshio Shikama, Hidefumi Nakamura, and Manpei
Suzuki

Ecology, Ethology, and Ontogeny
Genetics of adaptive interspecific variation of feeding-related and swimming-related traits in two
species of genus Gnathopogon. Tomoyuki Kokita, Hisanori Tanaka, and Morihito Nemoto
Genetic analysis on the northern-Florida subspecies hybrid population of the largemouth bass in
Lake Biwa. Taisuke Kuramoto
Age and growth of the northern-Florida subspecies hybrid population of the largemouth bass in
Lake Biwa. Taiga Yodo, Takeshi Toyama, Taisuke Kuramoto, Yuto Wakahata, and Tadao
Kitagawa
Factors affecting the distribution of large mouth bass Micropterus salmoides and bluegill Lepomis
macrochirus in Japanese dam reservoirs. Tomonori Osugi, Munehiro Igarashi, Morikazu Nishita,
and Kazuhiro Azami
Effect of bluegill catch by an automatic fish capturing trap Girujigoku. Osamu Katano, Hiroyuki
Sakano, and Boris Verkov
The origin of red-spotted masu salmon from Lake Biwa, and the situation of hybridyzation with
Biwa salmon. Masayuki Kuwahara, Kei'ichiro Iguchi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Takeshi Kikko, and4

Seiji Kurumi
Long-term population dynamics of charr isolated in a fragmented habitat. Kei'ichiro Iguchi,
Yoshihiro Sawamoto, Satoshi Kitano, Satoshi Yamamoto, Narumi Kono, Motokazu Kawanobe,
Katsuhiro Kiso, Sayaka Ito, and Koji Maekawa
Sex-biased movement in land-locked Japanese char Salvelinus leucomaenis. Takuya Sato andYasushi Harada
Effects of allien pisces on native pisces in the Shikotsu Lake watershed. Katsuya Misawa, Motohiro
Kikuchi, Yuji Seo, Yutaka Harauchi, and Masahide Kaeriyama
Habitat segregation of young of the year between native and nonnative salmonid species. Koh
Hasegawa and Koji Maekawa
Development of sexual dimorphic male characters compared between amphidromous andlandlocked populations of ayu Plecoglossus altivelis. Tetsuya Tsuruta and Kei'ichiro Iguchi
Recruitment season and oceanic larval duration of the amphidromous goby, Sicyopterus japonicus
in the Ota River. Wakayama Midori Iida, Shun Watanabe, and Katsumi Tsukamoto
Diverse migratory histories of Rhinogobius spieces in Japan, revealed by otolith elemental analyses.
Takatoshi Tsunagawa and Takaomi Arai
Conditions on spawnig site of Lefua echigonia in the farm canal. Fumio Higuchi
Seasonal population dynamics and migration of Lefua echigonia. Aya Enomoto, Hiroshi Aiki,
Naoyuki Suguro, Hiroyuki Terada, Nobuhiro Mano, and Hitomi Hirose
Spawning grounds and population structures of blue marlin Makaira nigricans in the central andwestern part of the North Pacific Ocean. Tamaki Shimose, Kotaro Yokawa, Hirokazu Saito, andKatsunori Tachihara
Tolerance to low temperature in Repomucenus ornatipinnis in southern Hokkaido, Japan. Yoshiki
Tanaka and Hiroyuki Munehara
Distribution pattern of Cobitis shikokuensis in the Shigenobu River, Ehime Prefecture. Ryota
Kawanishi, Mikio Inoue, Yo Miyake, Takaaki Shimizu, and Motohiro Takagi
Distribution of Acheilognathus macropterus in Lake Kasumigaura. Atsushi Tominaga, Kazunori
Arayama, and Hiromi Hanzawa
Distribution and growth of Oreochromis niloticus established in Tabaru River on Yonaguni Island.
Tetsuroh Ishikawa, Tamaki Shimose, and Katsunori Tachihara
Microhabitat characteristics of stream dwelling fishes using interstitial spaces‒Night and day time5

observations of habitat use in the experimental stream. Shiro Sagawa, Hiroyoshi Yazaki, Junichi
Akino, and Yuichi Kayaba
Estimation of potential habitat for the alien mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis, using GIS in
Tokushima Prefecture. Yushu Tashiro, Yoichi Sato, and Yasunori Kozuki
Are mangrove areas in the tropics nursery habitats for reef fishes? Yohei Nakamura, Masahiro
Horinouchi, Takuro Shibuno, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Toshihiro Miyajima, Isao Koike, Hisashi
Kurokura, and Mitsuhiko Sano
An approach to assess the habitat conditions of Wandos in large rivers. Junjiro Negishi, Shiro
Sagawa, and Yuichi Kayaba
Flexibility of reproductive tactics and its consequence in the brood parasitic fish, Pungtungia herzi.
Hideyuki Yamane, Katsutoshi Watanabe, and Yoshikazu Nagata
Comparison of the duration and behavior of male parental care among 3 spawning types. Masayuki
Kumagai, Hideki Sugiyama, and Akira Goto
Spawning time of pelagic eggs determined by feeding migration: interspecific difference among
herbivorous parrotfishes. Tetsuo Kuwamura
Effects of rival male on ejaculation quantity in spawning of medaka. Yukari Koike, Hiroyuki
Munehara, and Yasunori Koya
Reproductive ecology of the hole-nesting blenny, Neoclinus bryope (Blennioidei: Chaenopsidae),inhabiting intertidal rocky reef at Banda, Tateyama, Japan. Atsunobu Murase and Tomoki Sunobe
The reproductive behaviour of the grunt sculpin, Rhamphocottus richardsonii: Does the fish
copulate or not ? Takuzo Abe, Nagaaki Sato, and Hiroyuki Munehara
Reproduction and rearing of Pseudochromis porphyreus in the aquarium. Shunsuke Okamura,
Yoichi Tanaka, Kazuyuki Yamada, and Keisuke Takayanagi
Comparison of distribution and feeding habits between Nibea albiflora and Pennahia argentata
larvae and juveniles in the bottom part estuary of Ariake Bay. Yuuta Yagi, Izumi Kinoshita,
Hiroshi Ueda, Shinji Fujita, and Katsutoshi Kuno
Reproductive biology and early life history of Liposarcus disjunctivus naturalized in Okinawa
Island. Nobuhiko Shimadzu and Katsunori Tachihara
Taxonomy and distribution of pelagic juveniles of morids collected from off northeastern Japan.
Makoto Okamoto, Tsutomu Hattori, and Yuji Okazaki
Larvae and juveniles of two Nematalosa species occurring in Nakagusuku Bay on Okinawa Island,
southwestern Japan. Masato Hori and Katsunori Tachihara
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Developmental morphology of the cyprinid Parachela oxygastroides. Tetsuya Sado and Seishi
KimuraDistribution and migration of ayu larvae and juveniles in the coastal waters around the Kuji Riverestuary, Ibaraki Prefecture. Kazunori Arayama, Noriyuki Sunoh, and Yukio Yamazaki
Metamorphosis of the snake eel, Muraenichthys gymnotus. Rie Taniyama, Noritaka Mochioka,
Tamotsu Michishita, and Takeshi Kanda

Poster Presentations
Genetic and morphological comparison between two types of Siganus corallinus. Kaoru Kuriiwa,
Mutsumi Nishida, and Keiichi Matsuura
A species of the genus Psenes (Nomeidae) collected form the southern Kii Channel, Japan. Ryu
Doiuchi, Ryoichi Utsumi, and Tetsuji Nakabo
Review of armoured searobins (Peristediidae) collected from off Sumatra and Java Islands, eastern
Indian Ocean. Toshio Kawai
Review of the waspfish genus Liocranium (Scorpaeniformes: Tetrarogidae), with restoration of L.
pleurostigma. Hiroyuki Motomura, Peter R. Last, and Jeffrey W. Johnson
An undescribed species of the scorpaenid genus Setarches. Takeshi Yamakawa
An undescribed species of the genus Ptereleotris (Ptereleotridae) from Tosa Bay, Japan. Eri
Katayama and Hiromitsu Endo
Distribution of Porocottus leptosomus (Cottidae). Youn Choi, Zhen-feng Yang, and Mamoru Yabe
An undescribed species of Stichaeopsis (Stichaeidae) from Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan.
Yuko Kuzume, Fumihito Takaya, and Mamoru Yabe
Two morphological species groups in the genus Julidochromis in Lake Tanganyika (Perciformes,
Cichlidae). Fumihito Tashiro, Satoshi Awata, and Kazuhiro Nakaya
An undescribed species of stichaeid fish from western North Pasific, off Miyagi prefecture andsouthern Hokkaido, Japan. Tomoyuki Yamanaka, Takuzo Abe, and Mamoru Yabe
Review of the genus Pseudonezumia (Macrouridae) from Japan. Naohide Nakayama and Hiromitsu
Endo
Redefinition of cephalic sensory pores in Artediellin fishes (Perciformes: Cottidae) by comparison
with bony elements. Ryo Inagawa and Mamoru Yabe7

An undescribed triggerfish with distinctive round dark spots on the body collected from
Hachijo-jima Island (Izu Island Group). Keiichi Matsuura and Hiroshi Senou
Taxonomy of Apristurus macrorhynchus and A. macrostomus. Junro Kawauchi and Kazuhiro
NakayaMorphological and genetic characteristics of the Careproctus rastrinus species group (Family:
Liparidae). Yoshiaki Kai, Keiichi Sakai, and Tetsuji Nakabo
Ontogenetic change in color pattern of Spottobrotula mahodadi. Shin-ichiro Goeku and Tetsuo
YoshinoAn undescribed species of the genus Enneapterygius (Perciformes: Tripterygiidae) from Hachijo
Island, the Izu Islands, Japan. Masatoshi Meguro, Hiroshi Senou, Hiroshi Suzuki, Shigeru
Harazaki, and Hiroyuki Motomura
Taxonomy of the genus Apristurus collected from Australian waters. Keiichi Sato, Kazuhiro
Nakaya, Ryohei Sasahara, Junro Kawauchi, and Samuel P. Iglesias
Genetic Difference between Spratelloides atrofasciatus and S. gracilis (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae).
Hiro Ishimori and Tetsuo Yoshino
Taxonomic review of the Feia dabra species complex. Keidou Uchino and Hiroshi Senou
Undescribed species of gobioid fish, Luciogobius from Wakayama and Shizuoka. Yuji Ikeda,
Kazuaki Tamada, Takeo Yuba, and Masahiro Aizawa
An undescribed species of the genus Neoclinus (Blennioidei: Chaenopsidae) from south coast of
Boso Peninsula, Japan. Atsunobu Murase, Masahiro Aizawa, and Tomoki Sunobe
Diversity and host-specificity of copepods parasitic on tetraodontiform fish in Japan. Daisuke
Uyeno and Susumu Ohtsuka
Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of Rhinogobius sp. YB in Okinawa Island with notes on
the genetic variation among the Ryukyu Islands. Akira Kawaguchi, Mutsumi Nishida, and Tetsuo
YoshinoMolecular phylogenetic analysis of the gobioid genus Schindleria from the central Pacific. Takeshi
Kon, Tetsuo Yoshino, and Mutsumi Nishida
Coexistence of allopatrically-evolved haplotypes of Zacco platypus in Kanto plains. Kenzi
Takamura and Mayuko Nakahara
Distribution and present status of non-indigenous fishes in northern Kyushu. Jun Nakajima, Norio
Onikura, Yoshihisa Kurita, Takahiko Mukai, and Youichi Kawaguchi
A record of Tribolodon nakamurai from the Chikuma River in Nagano Pref., central Japan. Satoshi
8Kitano, Takenori Uehara, Hiroyuki Sakano, Jin Miyasaka, and Harumi Sakai
Spatial variation of ichthyofauna in relation to environmental variables in intertidal pools in theTama River estuary. Kouki Kanou and Takeshi Yamane
Occurrence patterns of fishes and environmental status of a canal in the inner part of Tokyo Bay.
Yusuke Miyazaki and Masato Moteki
The distribution pattern of introduced fishes in creek networks along the Sea of Ariake, northern
Kyushu Island, Japan. Norio Onikura, Jun Nakajima, Katuhisa Eguchi, Takuya Miyake, Kouichi
Kawamura, Takahiko Mukai, Youichi Kawaguchi, Takashi Nishida, Ryutei Inui, and Yoshihisa
KuritaA poorly known Acropoma lecorneti Fourmanoir, 1988 (Perciformes: Acropomatidae) from off
Okinawa Island, newly recorded from the North Pacific Ocean. Yusuke Yamanoue and Minoru
Toda
The original scenery of the Naiko lagoons around Lake Biwa clarified by fish specimen inspection.
Tomohiko Fujita, Machiko Nishino, and Kazumi Hosoya
Growth comparison of Epinephelus malabaricus by the principal component analysis. Masaya
Katoh, Reiko Fuseya, Hirofumi Karimata, and Motofumi Kimura
Branching patterns of the mediolateral line nerve in the flatfishes (Pleuronectiformes). Emi Fukuda
and Kunio Sasaki
Comparative analysis of orobranchial musculature among freshwater and marine stingrays' species.
Akemi Shibuya, Jansen Zuanon, Maria Araujo, and Sho Tanaka
Developmental osteology of Macroramphosus gracilis (Macroramphosidae: Gasterosteiformes).
Yohko Takata, Emi Yoshida, and Kunio Sasaki
Morphological and genetic comparisons of brackish half beak, Hyporhamphus intermedius in Japan.
Masami Hattori, Jun Nakajima, Taketo Tanaka, Jun Kaneto, Katsuhisa Eguchi, Takashi Nishida,
Ryutei Inui, and Daisuke Sakano, Yutaka Banno, and Norio Onikura
Morphology of Poecilia sp. (Poeciliidae) from Ibusuki, Kagoshima, Japan. Mizuki Matsunuma,
Hiroshi Suzuki, Mayumi Takayama, Yuriko Haraguchi, and Hiroyuki Motomura
Morphological variations of Pseudorasbora pumila pumila in geographical and between-habitat.
Seiji Kimura, Hideki Sugiyama, Akira Ito, and Eri MiyazakiMorphological features around animal pole of eggs in the gobioid genus Schindleria. Masako Hara,
Takeshi Kon, Shigeo Nakamura, and Mutsumi Nishida
Morphological characteristics and sexual maturity of nuclear transplants generated by
9transplantation of blastula nuclei into noneunuclead eggs in the loach Misgurnus
anguillicaudatus. Daiske Tanaka, Akito Takahashi, and Kouichi Ueno
Recruitment pattern of chaetodontid juveniles into acroporid hermatypic corals in Tosa Bay.
Yasuyuki Ichiba, Kosaku Yamaoka, Tomonori Hirata, and Shiori Hirata
Comparison in the growth of ayu between feeding on filamentous green macroalgae and on
attached algae. Toshiya Yamamoto, Osamu Mizuno, Kozo Nakane, Yoshiaki Fujii, and Kinji
Oiwa
Biological characteristics of Spratelloides gracilis sampled during a spawning time. Naoko
TakeuchiSeasonal migration of Hotoke loach (Lefua echigonia) in a spring water conservation pond. Takumi
Moriyama
Life-history variation in the Pacific Ocean form of threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus
around the eastern Hokkaido Island. Takefumi Kitamura and Akira Goto
The arrangement, storage, and practical use of video collections in the natural history museum.
Hiroshi Kawase
Life history of Papillogobius reichei and Favonigobius gymnauchen inhabiting in the riverine
estuaries on Okinawa Island. Megumi Kawahira, Masashi Kondo, Ken Maeda, and Katsunori
Tachihara
Age, growth and sex change of Scolopsis monogramma on Okinawa Island. Yuichi Akita and
Katsunori Tachihara
Stable isotope ratios reveal polymorphism of migratory behavior in a Lake Biwa population of
AYU. Youichirou Sakai, Tomohiro Takeyama, Zin'ichi Karube, Ichiro Tayasu, and Noboru
Okuda
A causal model of habitat environment for Hemigrammocypris rasborella (Cypriniformes:
Cyprinidae). Yoichi Sato and Yushu Tashiro
Reproductive cycle of Mugilogobius abei in the Ibi River, central Japan. Fumiyo Takasaki, Ryo Ito,
Takahiko Mukai, and Yasunori Koya
Environment of habitat and annual changes in gonadal histology of Lefua echigonia in Gifu
Prefecture. Yasunori Koya and Tatsuzo Hosoe
Distribution and microhabitat of Pandaka sp.A in Yukashigata Lake, Wakayama, Japan. Kazuyo
Kimura, Kentaro Hirashima, and Takahiko Mukai
Spawning sites of several gobies in brackish areas of the Kitagawa River, central-eastern Kyushu
10Island. Norio Onikura, Jun Nakajima, Takashi Nishida, Ryutei Inui, Katsuhisa Eguchi, Masaya
Nakatani, Jun Kaneto, and Shin Oikawa
Factors affecting utilization of host species in the rock bitterling Acheilognathus tabira tabira ofKushida river system in Mie. Hajime Maeda, Jyun-ichi Kitamura, and Yoshikazu Nagata
Hypoxia tolerance of 6 bitterling species inhabited in Lake Kasumigaura, Japan. Takahiro
Morosawa
Spawning grounds and nests of Gymnogobius macrognathos found in the Tatara River flowing
Fukuoka City in Fukuoka Prefecture. Katsuhisa Eguchi, Ryutei Inui, Takashi Nishida, Jun
Nakajima, and Norio Onikura
Male-male competition and reproductive territory of the bagrid catfish Pseudobagrus nudiceps.
Chiharu Torii, Manabu Kume, Seiichi Mori, and Yasushi Harada
Demonstration of ecological speciation by transplant examinations. Tetsumi Takahashi
The behavioral range and the spawning bed of Pseudoblennius percoides in the Koinoura seashore.
Takashi Nishida, Ryutei Inui, Norio Onikura, and Shin Oikawa
Genetic variation in environmental stress tolerance among two lineages and their hybrid swarms ofice goby Leucopsarion petersii. Sayaka Takahashi and Tomoyuki Kokita
Does the foraging efficiency of predatory fish always decrease with an increasing structuralcomplexity of seagrass habitats? Masahiro Horinouchi
Size-related overwinter mortality of medaka fish (Oryzias latipes). Shinobu Itoh, Masashi Ohta,
and Nobuyuki Azuma
Trophic level changes of Miyabe Charr for the last 70 years. Haruki Kobayashi, Noboru Okuda,
and Koji Maekawa
Medium term chage of fish assemblage in floodplain. Tomoaki Kuwahara
Accumulation of chemical pollutants in the Japanese eel Anguilla japonica during the life history.
Yoko Ikeda, Mayuko Oka, and Takaomi Arai
Feeding cycle of the Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas, in the Aquarium. Koki Ikeya, Jun
Hatano, Shunsuke Tanimura, and Yukiko Hori
Present state of inhabitation and protection in Aphyocypris chinensis. Kosuke Takaku, Midori
Kobayakawa, Norio Onikura, Kenichi Ohara, and Kazumi Hosoya
Simulation of weighted usable spawning area of shishamo smelt Spirinchus lanceolatus withchanging in channel bed morphology. Tetsuhiko Yagami, Takashi Araki, Kazuma Shigemura,
Hisaya Nii, and Takao Yoneda
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Distribution of the endangered species, Aphyocypris chinensis in canals and relationships between
its life history and agricultural affairs. Midori Kobayakawa, Tetsuo Hashimoto, Kosuke Takaku,
and Kazumi Hosoya
Daily and tidal rhythms of threespot wrasse. Yoriko Shibata, Miyuki Uchimura, Rena Ooya, Hiromi
Nakajima, Shigeo Nakamura, and Akihiro Takemura
Masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou) parr cannibalizes eggs regardless of their fertilization success.
Masahiro Watanabe, Shozo Takamura, and Koji Maekawa
Interspecific relations of the shrimp goby Cryptocentrus caeruleomaculatus and alpheid shrimps.
Miyuki Tsuboi, Yoichi Sakai, and Hiroaki Hashimoto
Male-removal experiments in the polygynous hawkfish, Paracirrhites forsteri (Cirrhitidae). Tatsuru
Kadota, Tomoko Mitsui, Yoichi Sakai, and Hiroaki Hashimoto
Genetic structures of sparid populations isolated by Kuroshio Current between Japanese and
Ryukyu Islands. Satoru Chiba and Naoto Hanzawa
Genetic differentiation in the genus Uroconger (Congridae) in the Indo-Pacific. Tao Ma, Jun
Aoyama, Michael J. Miller, Yuki Minegishi, Jun G. Inoue, and Katsumi Tsukamoto
Origin of non-indigenous populations of 3 Tridentiger species in U.S.A. Kana Sekiyama and
Takahiko Mukai
Complete mtDNA sequence of Japanese smallmouth bass: comparison with the partial nucleotide
sequences in the database. Chika Sato and Takahiko Mukai
Speciation mechanism of endemic species in Lake Biwa‒a case of Sarcocheilichthys fishes(Cyprinidae). Takefumi Komiya and Katsutoshi Watanabe
Invasion of non-native gene into Okinawa Island population of Oryzias latipes based on allozyme
analysis of aspartate aminotransferase. Hideyuki Imai, Toshihiko Yonezawa, and Katsunori
Tachihara
Genetic population structure of Pseudogobius masago in the Japan-Ryukyu Archipelago. Takahiko
Mukai and Akari Hayakawa
Genetic population structure of the Japanese torrent catfish Liobagrus reini, inferred frommitochondrial DNA sequences. Hikaru Nakagawa, Katsutoshi Watanabe, Takanori Ishikawa,and Shingo Seki
Morphological variation and genetic population structure of Squalidus chankaensis and S.
japonicus in Japan. Ryo Kakioka, Katsutoshi Watanabe, and Seiichi Mori

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Interrelationships of deep-sea macrourids (Gadiformes) inferred from whole mitochondrial genome
sequences. Takashi Satoh, Masaki Miya, Hiromitsu Endo, and Mutsumi Nishida
MHC variation in the endangered Japanese bitterling Tanakia tanago. Hitoshi Kubota, Katsutoshi
Watanabe, and Seiichi Watanabe
Disturbance of indigenous gene pool by intraspecific introgression of Lethenteron sp.S. Ayumi
Yamano, Ryota Yokoyama, Hirohiko Takeshima, Mutsumi Nishida, and Yuji Yamazaki
Genetic variation in local populations of Acheilognathus longipinnis deduced from microsatellite
DNA analysis. Yuji Yamazaki, Masaki Nishio, and Kazuhiko Uehara
Genetic diversity of natural and aquarium bloodstocks of Japanese three-spine stickleback
Gasterosteus microcephalus estimated from Inter-simple Sequence Repeats (ISSR) Analysis.
Toru Kobayashi, Hiroshi Abe, Naoki Yagishita, and Masanari Matsuda
Use of microsatellite locus flanking regions for identifying Japanese wild strain of common carp.
Kohji Mabuchi, Hiroshi Senou, and Mutsumi Nishida
Interpopulation variation in egg size of fluvial white-spotted charr Salvelinus luecomaenis. Takeshi
Kikko, Yasushi Harada, Daisuke Takeuchi, and Yoshiaki Kai
Morphology of gobioid larvae collected from sea coasts and estuaries on Okinawa Island. Ken
Maeda, Nozomi Yamasaki, and Katsunori Tachihara
Larval and juvenile fishes collected in the epibenthic layer of the upper continental slope of Suruga
Bay. Munehiro Takami and Atsushi Fukui
Growth and survival of juveniles from wild or cultured broodstocks in four spine sculpin Cottus
kazika. Daisuke Tahara, Yuri Tanikawa, and Hiroshi Hashimoto
Classification and distribution of anguilliform leptocephali collected from the northern East China
Sea to the southern Sea of Japan during autumn. Masanori Takahashi, Noritaka Mochioka, Sekio
Shinagawa, and Tsuneo Goto
Larval developents of Eumicrotremus taranetzi, in the family Cyclopteridae, from Sea of
Okhotsk,Hokkaido,Japan. Shinpei Higano, Atssushi Susuki, and Noboru Watanabe
Comparison of external morphology in early developmental stages among sympatric threespine
sticklebacks and their hybrids. Manabu Kume, Seiichi Mori, Chiharu Torii, and Masayuki Kato
Population dynamics of the larvae and juveniles of Labridae, Scaridae, Tripterygiidae andApogonidae in Okinawa Island. Taiki Ishihara and Katsunori Tachihara
Impressions concerning visual sense in salmon. Eiichi Hasegawa and Toshiya Suzuki
Gonads of maturing broadhand thornyhead. Hajime Matsubara, Kohei Satoh, Atsushi Suzuki, and13

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Gonad morphology and estimation at breeding period of Japanese seahorse, Hippocampus mohnikei,
from Matsushima bay. Yuu Otsuka, Hiroyasu Suzuki, Takashi Kawamura, Kiyoto Sawaki,
Akinori Otani , and Izumi Akagawa
Elemental composition of otoconia from 5 elasmobranch species. Yosuke Amano, Tomomi
Nakamura, Yoshio Sato, and Sho Tanaka
Head color change of Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas, in the aquarium. Jun Hatano,
Koki Ikeya, Syunsuke Tanimura, and Yukiko Hori
Habitat recovery of Tanakia tanago in the pond of Yokohama City. Naoyuki SuguroHane-ami-ryo, a traditional fisheries for ayu in Omono River, Akita Prefecture. Tosimi Kusanagi
and Hideki Sugiyama
Gobiopsis is not monophyletic: evidence from osteology. Naomi Delventhal and Randall Mooi

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