Publications by Laboratory of Fish Systematics at the Kagoshima
University Museum (1997–2018)
1. Motomura, H. and Y. Iwatsuki. 1997 (Dec.). A preliminary report of scorpaenid,
synanceiid, tetrarogid and aploactinid fishes in Miyazaki waters, southern Japan.
Bulletin of the Faculty of Agriculture, Miyazaki University, 44 (1–2): 127–138.
2. Motomura, H., Y. Iwatsuki, T. Yoshino, S. Kimura and O. Inamura. 1998 (Nov.).
A record of a carangid fish, Scomberoides commersonnianus, from Japan(Perciformes: Carangidae). Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 45 (2): 101–105.
(in Japanese, English abstract)
3. Motomura, H., Y. Iwatsuki, T. Yoshino and S. Kimura. 1999 (May). A record ofa polynemid fish, Polydactylus sextarius, from southern Japan (Perciformes:
Polynemidae). Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 46 (1): 57–61. (in Japanese,
English abstract)
4. Motomura, H., and Y. Iwatsuki. 2000 (Jan.). Two records of scorpaenid fishes
from the Hyuga Nada, southern Japan. Izu Oceanic Park Diving News, 11 (1): 2–
4. (in Japanese, English abstract)
5. Motomura, H., Y. Iwatsuki, S. Kimura and T. Yoshino. 2000 (Nov.).
Redescription of Polydactylus macrochir (Günther, 1867), a senior synonym of P.
sheridani (Macleay, 1884) (Perciformes: Polynemidae). Ichthyological Research,
47 (4): 327–333.
6. Iwatsuki, Y., H. Motomura, S. Kimura and T. Yoshino. 2000 (Nov.). A
holocentrid fish, Myripristis robusta from Japan (Beryciformes: Holocentridae).
Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 47 (2): 131–134. (in Japanese, English
abstract)
7. Iwatsuki, Y., H. Motomura, M. Toda, T. Yoshino and S. Kimura. 2000 (Nov.).
First record of a carangid fish, Trachinotus mookalee, from Japan (Perciformes:
Carangidae). Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 47 (2): 135–138. (in Japanese,
English abstract)
8. Motomura, H. 2000 (Nov.). Museums of the world. Japanese Journal of
Ichthyology, 47 (2): 148–150. (in Japanese)
9. Motomura, H., U. Satapoomin and Y. Iwatsuki. 2000 (Dec.). A new record of
the threadfin, Filimanus perplexa Feltes, 1991, (Perciformes: Polynemidae) fromthe Andaman Sea, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin,
63: 17–20.
10. Iwatsuki, Y., M. I. Djawad, A. I. Burhanuddin, H. Motomura and K. Hidaka.
2000 (Dec.). A preliminary list of the epipelagic and inshore fishes of Makassar(=Ujung Pandang), south Sulawesi, Indonesia, collected mainly from fish
markets between 23–27 January 2000, with notes on fishery catchcharacteristics. Bulletin of the Faculty of Agriculture, Miyazaki University, 47(1/2): 95–114.
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11. Motomura, H., A. I. Burhanuddin and Y. Iwatsuki. 2000 (Dec.). Distributional
implications of a poorly known polynemid fish, Polydactylus sexfilis (Pisces:
Perciformes), in Japan. Bulletin of the Faculty of Agriculture, Miyazaki University,
47 (1/2): 115–120.
12. Motomura, H., K. Hidaka, and Y. Iwatsuki. 2001 (Feb.). A cardinalfish,Archamia dispilus, from Miyazaki waters, southern Japan (Perciformes:
Apogonidae). I. O. P. Diving News, 12 (2): 5–7. (in Japanese, English abstract)
13. Motomura, H., K. Ueyama and Y. Iwatsuki. 2001 (Feb.). Records of two
scorpaenid fishes from Miyazaki waters, southern Japan. Izu Oceanic Park
Diving News, 12 (3): 5–7. (in Japanese, English abstract)
14. Motomura, H. and Y. Iwatsuki. 2001 (Mar.). A new genus, Leptomelanosoma,
for the polynemid fish previously known as Polydactylus indicus (Shaw, 1804)and a redescription of the species. Ichthyological Research, 48 (1): 13–21.
15. Motomura, H., Y. Iwatsuki and S. Kimura. 2001 (Mar.). Redescription of
Polydactylus sexfilis (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1831), a seniorsynonym of P. kuru (Bleeker, 1853) with designation of a lectotype (Perciformes:
Polynemidae). Ichthyological Research, 48 (1): 83–89.
16. Motomura, H., M. Okamoto, H. Ida and Y. Iwatsuki. 2001 (Apr.). A rarethreadfin (Perciformes: Polynemidae), Filimanus hexanema, from Indonesia. Izu
Oceanic Park Diving News, 12 (4): 5–7. (in Japanese, English abstract)
17. Motomura, H., Y. Iwatsuki and T. Yoshino. 2001 (May). A new species,
Polydactylus siamensis, from Thailand and redescription of P. plebeius(Broussonet, 1782) with designation of a neotype (Perciformes: Polynemidae).
Ichthyological Research, 48 (2): 117–126.
18. Motomura, H., Y. Iwatsuki and S. Kimura. 2001 (May). A poorly known
polynemid fish, Polynemus astrolabi Sauvage, 1881, a junior synonym of
Galeoides decadactylus (Bloch, 1795). Ichthyological Research, 48 (2): 197–
202.
19. Motomura, H., B. V. Seshagiri Rao, B. Ratnamala and Y. Iwatsuki. 2001
(May). Polydactylus konadaensis Mishra and Krishnan, 1993, a junior synonymof Filimanus xanthonema (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1831)(Perciformes: Polynemidae). Ichthyological Research, 48 (2): 203–206.
20. Motomura, H., H. Senou and Y. Iwatsuki. 2001 (May). A record of a threadfin,
Eleutheronema tetradactylum, from Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, anddescription of a newly–recognized diagnostic character for the species(Perciformes: Polynemidae). Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 48 (1): 41–47. (inJapanese, English abstract)
21. Motomura, H., M. J. P. van Oijen, I. J. H. Isbrücker and Y. Iwatsuki. 2001
(Aug.). Redescription of a rare threadfin (Perciformes: Polynemidae),
Polydactylus macrophthalmus (Bleeker, 1858), with designation of a lectotype
and notes on distributional implications. Ichthyological Research, 48 (3): 289–2

294.
22. Motomura, H., S. Kimura and Y. Iwatsuki. 2001 (Aug.). Polydactylus bifurcus,
a new species of threadfin from Lombok Island, Indonesia (Perciformes:
Polynemidae). Ichthyological Research, 48 (3): 299–305.
23. Motomura, H., A. I. Burhanuddin, S. Kimura and Y. Iwatsuki. 2001 (Aug.).
Fresh color notes for Priacanthus prolixus Starnes, 1988 from the west coast ofIndia (Perciformes: Priacanthidae). Biogeography, 3: 77–81.
24. Motomura, H., S. Kimura and Y. Iwatsuki. 2001 (Aug.). Distributional range
extension of a clupeid fish, Sardinella melanura (Cuvier, 1829), in southern
Japan (Teleostei: Clupeiformes). Biogeography, 3: 83–87.
25. Motomura, H., E. Mikschi and Y. Iwatsuki. 2001 (Sept.). Galeoides Günther,
1860, a monotypic genus of the family Polynemidae (Perciformes). Cybium, 25(3): 269–272.
26. Motomura, H. and Y. Iwatsuki. 2001 (Nov.). Review of Polydactylus species(Perciformes: Polynemidae) characterized by a large black anterior lateral line
spot, with descriptions of two new species. Ichthyological Research, 48 (4): 337–
354.
27. Motomura, H. 2001 (Nov.). Invalid neotype designation by Fricke (1999).
Ichthyological Research, 48 (4): 435–437.
28. Motomura, H., M. Okamoto and Y. Iwatsuki. 2001 (Dec.). Description of a
new species of threadfin (Teleostei: Perciformes: Polynemidae), Polydactylus
longipes, from Mindanao Island, Philippines. Copeia, 2001 (4): 1087–1092.
29. Motomura, H., Y. Iwatsuki, S. Kimura and T. Yoshino. 2002 (Feb.). Revisionof the Indo–West Pacific polynemid fish genus Eleutheronema (Teleostei:
Perciformes). Ichthyological Research, 49 (1): 47–61.
30. Motomura, H. and H. Senou. 2002 (Mar.). Record of Polydactylus sexfilis(Perciformes: Polynemidae) from Hachijo–jima, Izu Islands, Japan withcomments on morphological changes with growth and speciation of related
species. Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Sciences), (31):27–31.
31. Motomura, H. and M. H. Sabaj. 2002 (May). A new subspecies, Polynemus
melanochir dulcis, from Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia, and redescription of P. m.
melanochir Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1831 with designation of aneotype. Ichthyological Research, 49 (2): 181–190.
32. Motomura, H., J. W. Johnson and Y. Iwatsuki. 2002 (Sept.). A taxonomic
assessment and redescription of Polydactylus multiradiatus (Günther, 1860),with a synopsis of other Australian species in the genus (Perciformes:
Polynemidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 50 (3): 267–279.
33. Motomura, H. 2002 (Sept.). Revision of the Indo–Pacific threadfin genus
3Polydactylus (Perciformes: Polynemidae) with a key to the species. Bulletin of
the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A (Zoology), 28 (3): 171–194.
34. Motomura, H. 2002 (Oct.). First record of a scorpionfish (Scorpaenidae),
Scorpaenopsis ramaraoi, from New Caledonia. Cybium, 26 (3): 237–238.
35. Motomura, H., S. O. Kullander, T. Yoshino and Y. Iwatsuki. 2002 (Nov.).
Review of seven–spined Polynemus species (Perciformes: Polynemidae) withdesignation of a neotype for P. paradiseus Linnaeus, 1758. IchthyologicalResearch, 49 (4): 307–317.
36. Motomura, H., S. Kimura and Y. Iwatsuki. 2002 (Nov.). Revision of thethreadfin genus Polydactylus (Perciformes: Polynemidae) from the eastern
Pacific Ocean. Ichthyological Research, 49 (4): 358–366.
37. Motomura, H., T. Sado and S. Kimura. 2002 (Nov.). Feeding behavior of
Polydactylus plebeius (Perciformes: Polynemidae) in an aquarium. Japanese
Journal of Ichthyology, 49 (2): 156–157. (in Japanese)
38. Motomura, H., S. Tsukawaki and T. Kamiya. 2002 (Dec.). A preliminary
survey of the fishes of Lake Tonle Sap near Siem Reap, Cambodia. Bulletin of
the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A (Zoology), 28 (4): 233–246.
39. Motomura, H. 2003 (May). A new species of freshwater threadfin,
Polynemus aquilonaris, from Indochina, and redescription of P. dubius Bleeker,
1853 (Perciformes: Polynemidae). Ichthyological Research, 50 (2): 154–163.
40. Motomura, H. 2003 (Aug.). An East Asian endemic threadfin,
Eleutheronema rhadinum (Perciformes: Polynemidae); first record from Vietnam.
Biogeography, 5: 33–37.
41. Motomura, H. and M. J. P. van Oijen. 2003 (Dec.). Polynemus kapuasensis,
a new threadfin (Perciformes: Polynemidae) from western Kalimantan,
Indonesia, and a redescription of P. multifilis Temminck & Schlegel, 1843.
Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden, 77 (22): 393–407.
42. Motomura, H. 2004 (Jan.). Morphological comparison of a poorly known
scorpionfish, Parapterois macrura, with a related species, P. heterura(Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae). Zoological Studies, 43 (1): 1–7.
43. Motomura, H. 2004 (Feb.). Family Polynemidae Rafinesque 1815 –threadfins. Annotated checklists of fishes No. 32. California Academy of
Sciences, San Francisco. 18 pp.
44. Motomura, H. 2004 (May). Occurrence of Scorpaenopsis venosa(Scorpaenidae) on the Saya de Malha Bank, Indian Ocean. IchthyologicalResearch, 51 (2): 188–189.
45. Motomura, H. 2004 (Aug.). Scorpaenopsis insperatus, a new species ofscorpionfish from Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia(Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae). Copeia, 2004 (3): 546–550.
446. Motomura, H. 2004 (Aug.). A Summary of the history and current status of
the fish collection at the Australian Museum, with examples of collection
management procedures. Taxa, Proceedings of the Japanese Society of
Systematic Zoology, 17: 16–26. (in Japanese, English abstract)
47. Motomura, H. 2004 (Aug.). A declaration of amendment of Article 74.7.3 by
ICZN. Taxa, Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 17:
39–40. (in Japanese)
48. Motomura, H. 2004 (Nov.). Threadfins of the world (family Polynemidae). An
annotated and illustrated catalogue of polynemid species known to date. FAO
Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes No. 3. Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome. vii + 117 pp., 151 figs., 6 pls.
49. Motomura, H., S. Kimura and Y. Iwatsuki. 2004 (Nov.). The largest sizerecord of a rare threadfin, Polydactylus bifurcus, from Lombok Island, Indonesia,
with comments on relationships between the largest recorded size and bodycoloration in the Indo–Pacific species of Polydactylus (Perciformes:
Polynemidae). Izu Oceanic Park Diving News, 15 (12): 2–7. (in Japanese,
English abstract)
50. Motomura, H., T. Yoshino and N. Takamura. 2004 (Nov.). Review of the
scorpionfish genus Scorpaenopsis (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) inJapanese waters with three new records and an assessment of standard
Japanese names. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 51 (2): 89–115. (in Japanese,
English abstract)
51. Motomura, H. 2004 (Nov.). Book review of “Fishes of Japan: mysterious
evolution revealed by genealogy”. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 51 (2): 181–
182. (in Japanese)
52. Motomura, H. 2004 (Nov.). Renovation and temporary relocation of the
California Academy of Sciences from Golden Gate Park and the current status of
the Ichthyology Department. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 51 (2): 189–190.
(in Japanese)
53. Motomura, H. 2004 (Dec.). New species of scorpionfish, Scorpaenacocosensis (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) from the Cocos Islands, Costa
Rica, eastern Pacific Ocean. Copeia, 2004 (4): 818–824.
54. Motomura, H. 2004 (Dec.). Revision of the scorpionfish genus Neosebastes(Scorpaeniformes: Neosebastidae), with descriptions of five new species. Indo–
Pacific Fishes, 37: 1–76, 29 figs., 2 pls.
55. Motomura, H., R. Fricke and W. N. Eschmeyer. 2005 (Apr.). Redescriptionof a poorly known scorpionfish, Scorpaena canariensis (Sauvage), and a firstrecord of Pontinus leda Eschmeyer from the Northern Hemisphere(Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A(Biologie), No. 674: 1–15.
56. Motomura, H. and H. Senou. 2005 (Apr.). Validity of the scorpionfish genus
5Hipposcorpaena Fowler and a redescription of H. filamentosa Fowler(Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae). Zoological Studies, 44 (2): 210–218.
57. Motomura, H., C. D. Paulin and A. L. Stewart. 2005 (June). First records ofScorpaena onaria (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) from the southwestern
Pacific Ocean, and comparisons with the Northern Hemisphere population. New
Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 39 (4): 865–880.
58. Last, P. R., G. K. Yearsley and H. Motomura. 2005 (Aug.). Lioscorpius
trifasciatus, a new scorpionfish (Scorpaeniformes: Setarchidae) from the South–
West Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa, 1038: 11–22.
59. Motomura, H., P. R. Last and W. T. White. 2005 (Aug.). First records of ascorpionfish, Maxillicosta raoulensis (Scorpaeniformes: Neosebastidae), fromthe Tasman Sea, with fresh colour notes for the species. Biogeography, 7: 85–90.
60. Motomura, H., P. R. Last and G. K. Yearsley. 2005 (Aug.). Scorpaena
bulacephala, a new species of scorpionfish (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae)
from the northern Tasman Sea. Zootaxa, 1043: 17–32.
61. Motomura, H., S. Harazaki and G. S. Hardy. 2005 (Aug.). A new species of
triplefin (Perciformes: Tripterygiidae), Enneapterygius senoui, from Japan withdiscussion of their in situ colour pattern. Aqua, Journal of Ichthyology andAquatic Biology, 10 (1): 5–14.
62. Motomura, H. and G. Shinohara. 2005 (Sept.). Assessment of taxonomic
characters of Scorpaenopsis obtusa and S. gibbosa (Scorpaenidae), with firstrecords of S. obtusa from Japan and Australia and comments on the synonymy
of S. gibbosa. Cybium, 29 (3): 295–301.
63. Motomura, H. and T. Mukai. 2006 (Mar.). Tonlesapia tsukawakii, a new
genus and species of freshwater dragonet (Perciformes: Callionymidae) from
Lake Tonle Sap, Cambodia. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 17 (1):43–52.
64. Motomura, H. 2006 (May). Book review of “Morphological Diversity ofFishes”. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 53 (1): 103–105. (in Japanese)
65. Motomura, H., S. Harazaki and H. Senou. 2006 (May). Assessment ofstandard Japanese names of two triplefins, Helcogramma inclinata and H.
nesion (Tripterygiidae), with the northernmost record and newly–recognizeddiagnostic characters of H. inclinata. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 53 (1):
106–109. (in Japanese)
66. Tsukawaki, S., Y. Araki, T. Ishikawa, H. Motomura, T. Mukai, H. Oyagi, K.
Sakai. 2006 (June). Evaluation of the present atmospheric environment in
Cambodia from a standpoint of conservation of the biodiversity in Lake Tonle
Sap. Journal of Aerosol Research, 21 (2): 114–121.
67. Motomura, H. and S. Tsukawaki. 2006 (Aug.). New species of the threadfin
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genus Polynemus (Teleostei: Polynemidae) from the Mekong River basin,
Vietnam, with comments on the Mekong species of Polynemus. The Raffles
Bulletin of Zoology, 54 (2): 459–464.
68. Motomura, H., P. R. Last and G. K. Yearsley. 2006 (Sept.). New species ofshallow water scorpionfish (Scorpaenidae: Scorpaena) from the central coast ofWestern Australia. Copeia, 2006 (3): 360–369.
69. Motomura, H., P. R. Last and M. F. Gomon. 2006 (Sept.). A new species ofthe scorpionfish genus Maxillicosta from the southeast coast of Australia, with aredescription of M. whitleyi (Scorpaeniformes: Neosebastidae). Copeia, 2006
(3): 445–459.
70. Motomura, H. and J. W. Johnson. 2006 (Sept.). Validity of the poorly known
scorpionfish, Rhinopias eschmeyeri, with redescriptions of R. frondosa and R.
aphanes (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae). Copeia, 2006 (3): 500–515.
71. Tsukawaki, S., H. Motomura, Teams EMSB and EMSB–u32. 2006 (Oct.).
Preliminary results from the research missions of EMSB and EMSB–u32
programmes: “Evaluation of mechanisms sustaining the biodiversity of Lake
Tonle Sap, Cambodia”. Mekong Research for the People of the Mekong, Chiang
Rai, Thailand. Pp. 36–42.
72. Motomura, H. and S. Fukumoto. 2006 (Nov.). New fish collection at theKagoshima University Museum, Japan, with change of registration code.
Ichthyological Research (Editorial Notes and Announcements), 53 (4): 441–442.
73. Motomura, H. 2007 (Jan.). Diversity and characteristics of fishes of Lake
Tonle Sap, Cambodia, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. The
Kagoshima University Museum Newsletter, No. 14: 8–13. (in Japanese)
74. Motomura, H., S. G. Poss and K.–T. Shao. 2007 (Feb.). Scorpaena pepo, a
new species of scorpionfish (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) from
northeastern Taiwan, with a review of S. onaria Jordan and Snyder. ZoologicalStudies, 46 (1): 35–45.
75. Motomura, H. 2007 (Apr.). Volunteer activities for fish collection at theKagoshima University Museum. The Kagoshima University Museum Newsletter,
No. 16: 1–16. (in Japanese)
76. Motomura, H., P. R. Last and G. K. Yearsley. 2007 (Apr.). Scopelarchoides
kreffti (Actinopterygii: Aulopiformes: Scopelarchidae) from off Tasmania,
Australia: first records from outside the South Atlantic Ocean. Species Diversity,
12 (1): 9–15.
77. Motomura, H., P. R. Last and G. K. Yearsley. 2007 (May). Two new speciesof the scorpionfish genus Trachyscorpia (Sebastidae: Sebastolobinae) from thesouthern Indo–West Pacific, with comments on the distribution of T. eschmeyeri.
Zootaxa, 1466: 19–34.

778. Motomura, H. 2007 (May). Book Review of “Reef and shore fishes of the
Hawaiian Islands”. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 54 (1): 90. (in Japanese)
79. Motomura, H., M. Ito, M. Takayama, Y. Haraguchi and M. Matsunuma. 2007
(Aug.). Second Japanese record of a threadfin, Eleutheronema rhadinum(Perciformes: Polynemidae), with distributional implications. Biogeography, 9: 7–
11.
80. Motomura, H. and S. Harazaki. 2007 (Aug.). In situ ontogenetic color
changes of Pentapodus aureofasciatus (Perciformes: Nemipteridae) off
Yakushima Island, southern Japan and comments on the biology of the species.
Biogeography, 9: 23–30.
81. Motomura, H., M. Ito, H. Ikeda, H. Endo, M. Matsunuma and K. Hatooka.
2007 (Aug.). Review of Japanese records of a grouper, Epinephelus
amblycephalus (Perciformes: Serranidae), with new specimens from Kagoshima
and Wakayama. Biogeography, 9: 49–56.
82. Motomura, H. 2007 (Sept.). Fishes newly recorded from Kagoshima
collected in May 2007. The Kagoshima University Museum Newsletter, No. 17:
14. (in Japanese)
83. Motomura, H. 2007 (Sept.). A mysterious fish, Pseudanthias venator Snyder,
1911. The Kagoshima University Museum Newsletter, No. 17: 14. (in Japanese)
84. Motomura, H., S. Kimura and Y. Haraguchi. 2007 (Dec.). Two carangid
fishes (Actinopterygii: Perciformes), Caranx heberi and Ulua mentalis, from
Kagoshima: the first records from Japan and northernmost records for the
species. Species Diversity, 12 (4): 223–235.
85. Ito, M., M. Takayama, Y. Haraguchi, M. Matsunuma and H. Motomura. 2007
(Dec.). A large number of a rare fish, Atule mate (Teleostei: Perciformes:
Carangidae), collected from Kagoshima, Japan. Nanki–seibutsu, 49 (2): 117–
118. (in Japanese)
86. Matsunuma, M., T. Yonezawa, A. Shinomiya, H. Suzuki, K. Oki and H.
Motomura. 2007 (Dec.). A record of the endangered lamprey, Lethenteron sp. S(Petromyzontiformes: Petromyzontidae), from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 62: 23–28. (in Japanese,
English abstract)
87. Motomura, H. 2008 (Feb.). Book Review of “Reef and shore fishes of the
Hawaiian Islands”. Ichthyological Research (Editorial Notes andAnnouncements), 55 (1): 97–98.
88. Motomura, H. (ed.). 2008 (Mar.). Fishes collected by set nets from
Kagoshima – confirmed by Kagoshima Aquarium –. Kagoshima Aquarium,
Kagoshima. 260 pp. (in Japanese)
89. Motomura, H. and H. Senou. 2008 (Apr.). A new species of the scorpionfish
genus Scorpaena (Scorpaenidae) from Izu Peninsula, Pacific coast of Japan.
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Journal of Fish Biology, 72 (7): 1761–1772.
90. Sakurai, M. and H. Motomura. 2008 (Apr.). Results of resident surveys on
publicizing the fascinating nature of Kagoshima Bay. Nature of Kagoshima, 34:
17–19. (in Japanese)
91. Motomura, H. and M. Sakurai. 2008 (Apr.). The fishes of Kagoshima – 2007
research highlights. Nature of Kagoshima, 34: 25–34. (in Japanese)
92. Okamoto, M., A. Yamaguchi, H. Sugisaki and H. Motomura. 2008 (May).
Second Japanese record of a platytroctid fish, Maulisia acuticeps Sazonov, 1976.
Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 55 (1): 59–61. (in Japanese)
93. Kimura, S., R. Kimura, K. Ikejima, H. Motomura, Y. Iwatsuki and T. Yoshino.
2008 (May). Standard Japanese names for the six leiognathid genera. Japanese
Journal of Ichthyology, 55 (1): 62–63. (in Japanese)
94. Kimura, S., H. Motomura and Y. Iwatsuki. 2008 (May). Equulites Fowler
1904, a senior synonym of Photoplagios Sparks, Dunlap, and Smith 2005
(Perciformes: Leiognathidae). Ichthyological Research, 55 (2): 204–205.
95. Last, P. R., H. Motomura, and W. T. White. 2008 (June). Cephaloscyllium
albipinnum sp. nov., a new swellshark (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) fromsoutheastern Australia. Pp. 147–157. In: P. R. Last, W. T. White and J. J.
Pogonoski (eds.). Descriptions of new Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO
Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 22.
96. Motomura, H., P. R. Last and J. W. Johnson. 2008 (July). Review of thewaspfish genus Liocranium (Scorpaeniformes: Tetrarogidae), with restoration of
L. pleurostigma (Weber). Zootaxa, 1820: 27–40.
97. Motomura, H. 2008 (Aug.). Book review of "Preparation of Natural History
Collection: Record, Care and Conservation". Taxa, Proceedings of the JapaneseSociety of Systematic Zoology, 25: 46. (in Japanese)
98. Johnson, J. W. and H. Motomura. 2008 (Sept.). Family Scorpaenidae.
Scorpionfishes, pp. 393–395; family Neosebastidae. Gurnard perches, pp. 395–
400; family Sebastidae. Ocean perches, pp. 400–402; family Tetrarogidae. Wasp
fishes, sailback scorpionfishes, pp. 402–405. In M. Gomon, D. Bray and R.
Kuiter (eds.) Fishes of Australia's southern coast. New Holland Press,
Chatswood. 928 pp.
99. Motomura, H. 2008 (Oct.). Book Review of “Carl von Linné as the root of
natural history”. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 55 (2): 148–149. (in Japanese)
100. Kimura, S., S. Houki, M. Yamada and H. Motomura. 2008 (Oct.). First
record of a ponyfish, Secutor indicius, from Japan (Perciformes: Leiognathidae).
Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 55 (2): 111–114. (in Japanese, English
abstract)
101. Motomura, H. 2008 (Nov.). Scorpaenopsis stigma Fowler, 1938, a junior
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synonym of Phenacoscorpius megalops Fowler, 1938, with comments on thetype series of P. megalops (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae). Zoological Studies, 47 (6):774–780.
102. Matsunuma, M., M. Meguro, G. Ogihara and H. Motomura. 2008 (Dec.).
Records of Aulopus formosanus (Aulopiformes, Aulopidae) from Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan, and descriptions of newly recognized diagnostic
characters for the species. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 63:
71–79. (in Japanese, English abstract)103. Motomura, H. 2009 (Jan.). Sebastapistes taeniophrys (Fowler, 1943): a
valid scorpionfish (Scorpaenidae) from the Philippines. Ichthyological Research,
56 (1): 62–68.
104. Motomura, H. 2009 (Mar.). Carapidae. Pearlfishes, p. 38; Batrachoididae.
Toadfishes, p. 39; Antennariidae. Frogfishes, pp. 40–41; Scorpaenidae.
Scorpionfishes, pp. 63–69; Tetrarogidae. Waspfishes, p. 70; Synanceiidae.
Stonefishes, pp. 72–73; Acropomatidae. Temperate Ocean–basses, p. 81;
Pseudochromidae. Dottybacks, pp. 95–96; Plesiopidae. Roundheads (Longfins),
pp. 97–98; Lactaridae. False Trevally, p. 112; Rachycentridae. Cobia, p. 113;
Echeneidae. Remoras, p. 114; Polynemidae. Threadfins, pp. 167–170;
Sciaenidae. Croakers, pp. 170–172. In S. Kimura, U. Satapoomin and K.
Matsuura (eds.) Fishes of Andaman Sea. West coast of southern Thailand.
National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. vi + 346 pp.
105. Motomura, H. and U. Satapoomin. 2009 (Mar.). Serranidae. Groupers (Sea
Basses, Fairy Basslets), pp. 82–95; Opistognathidae. Jawfishes, p. 99. In S.
Kimura, U. Satapoomin and K. Matsuura (eds.) Fishes of Andaman Sea. West
coast of southern Thailand. National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. vi +346 pp.
106. Motomura, H., K. Shibukawa and U. Satapoomin. 2009 (Mar.). Haemulidae.
Sweetlips (Grunts), pp. 152–155. In S. Kimura, U. Satapoomin and K. Matsuura(eds.) Fishes of Andaman Sea. West coast of southern Thailand. National
Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. vi + 346 pp.
107. Shibukawa, K. and H. Motomura. 2009 (Mar.). Nemipteridae. Threadfin
Breams and Monocle Bream, pp. 156–160. In S. Kimura, U. Satapoomin and K.
Matsuura (eds.) Fishes of Andaman Sea. West coast of southern Thailand.
National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. vi + 346 pp.
108. Motomura, H. and K. Shibukawa. 2009 (Mar.). Lethrinidae. Emperors, pp.
161–164. In S. Kimura, U. Satapoomin and K. Matsuura (eds.) Fishes ofAndaman Sea. West coast of southern Thailand. National Museum of Natureand Science, Tokyo. vi + 346 pp.
109. Motomura, H. (ed.). 2009 (Mar.). Fish collection building and procedures
manual. The Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima. 70 pp. (in Japanese)
110. Motomura, H. 2009 (Mar.). Ichthyofaunal survey in Yaku–shima Island.
10Kagoshima University Museum Newsletter, (21): 10–11. (in Japanese)
111. Motomura, H. and H. Senou. 2009 (Apr.). New records of the dwarf
scorpionfish, Sebastapistes fowleri (Actinopterygii: Scorpaeniformes:
Scorpaenidae), from East Asia, and notes on Australian records of the species.
Species Diversity, 14 (1): 1–8.
112. Matsunuma, H. and H. Motomura. 2009 (Apr.). First records of an
introduced molly Poecilia mexicana (Perciformes: Poeciliidae) from Japan.
Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 56 (1): 21–30. (in Japanese, English abstract)113. Matsunuma, M., G. Ogihara, M. Meguro and H. Motomura. 2009 (June).
Records of the endangered goby, Gymnogobius scrobiculatus (Perciformes:
Gobiidae), from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 35: 9–12.
(in Japanese)
114. Sakurai, M., H. Motomura and I. Aoki. 2009 (June). Results of resident
attitude surveys on the sea and fishes of Kagoshima. Nature of Kagoshima, 35:
43–46. (in Japanese)
115. Ogihara, G., T. Yoshida and H. Motomura. 2009 (June). A first record of
Dasyatis izuensis (Rajiformes: Dasyatidae) from Kagoshima Prefecture,southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 35: 63–66. (in Japanese)
116. Motomura, H., Y. Sakurai and G. Shinohara. 2009 (July). First records of ascorpionfish, Scorpaenodes albaiensis, from East Asia, with a synopsis of S.
minor (Actinopterygii: Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae). Species Diversity, 14(2): 75–87.
117. Motomura, H., Y. Sakurai, H. Senou and H.-C. Ho. 2009 (Aug.).
Morphological comparisons of the Indo–West Pacific scorpionfish,
Parascorpaena aurita, with a closely related species, P. picta, with first recordsof P. aurita from East Asia (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae). Zootaxa, 2191:
41–57.
118. Motomura, H. and J. E. McCosker. 2009 (Aug.). Second specimen of the
Costa Rican scorpionfish, Scorpaena cocosensis (Scorpaenidae): the firstrecord from the Galapagos Islands, with fresh color notes on the species.
Biogeography, 11: 135–137.
119. Motomura, H., G. Ogihara, M. Meguro and M. Matsunuma. 2009 (Aug.).
First records of the Pumpkin Scorpionfish, Scorpaena pepo (Scorpaenidae),from Japan. Biogeography, 11: 139–143.
120. Béarez, P. and H. Motomura. 2009 (Oct.). Description of a new
scorpionfish (Scorpaenoidei, Sebastolobinae) from the tropical eastern Pacific.
Zootaxa, 2277: 61–68.
121. Motomura, H. and P. R. Last. 2009 (Nov.). Phenacoscorpius longirostris, a
new species of deep water scorpionfish (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) fromthe northern Tasman Sea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa, 2290: 27–35.
11122. Hoese, D. F. and H. Motomura. 2009 (Dec.). Descriptions of two new
genera and species of ptereleotrine fishes from Australia and Japan (Pisces:
Gobioidei) with discussion of possible relationships. Zootaxa, 2312: 49–59.
123. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2009 (Dec.). Northernmost records of
Apogon amboinensis (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from Yaku–shima Island,
Kagoshima, southern Japan. Nanki–seibutsu, 51 (2): 96–98. (in Japanese)
124. Iwatsubo, H., M. Ito, K. Nakao, M. Meguro, M. Matsunuma and H.
Motomura. 2009 (Dec.). Records of Lagocephalus suezensis(Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from southern Kyushu, Japan. Bulletin of
the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 64: 21–27. (in Japanese, English
abstract)
125. Ogihara, G., S. Harazaki and H. Motomura. 2009 (Dec.). New records of
Amblygobius linki (Gobiidae) from Amami–oshima and Yaku–shima Islands,
Kagoshima, southern Japan. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan,
64: 41–45. (in Japanese, English abstract)126. Matsunuma, M., S. Harazaki, M. Meguro, G. Ogihara and H. Motomura.
2009 (Dec.). Records of two haemulid fishes, Plectorhinchus gibbosus andPomadasys quadrilineatus (Teleostei: Perciformes), from Kagoshima Prefecture,southern Japan, and morphological comparisons of P. gibbosus with P. cinctus atjuvenile stages. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 64: 57–67. (inJapanese, English abstract)127. Ogihara, G., S. Dewa and H. Motomura. 2009 (Dec.). Record of an
introduced species, Amphiprion melanopus (Pomacentridae: Amphiprioninae),
from Kagoshima Bay, southern Japan. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society ofJapan, 64: 197–204. (in Japanese, English abstract)128. Motomura, H. 2010 (Jan.). Nature of Lake Tonle Sap. Cambodia Krorma
Travel Guidebook, 14: 23–26. (in Japanese)
129. Motomura, H. 2010 (Feb.). International educational activities by the
Kagoshima University Museum. Kagoshima University Museum NewsLetter, No.
25: 1–5. (in Japanese)
130. Motomura, H. 2010 (Mar.). Role of university museums and fish collectionbuildings. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan,
on–line publication, 10 pp., 32 figs. (in Japanese)
131. Motomura, H. 2010 (Mar.). Fish species diversity in Kagoshima Prefecture,
Japan. Transcript of Lectures, Kagoshima University Education Center, Nature
Series: 116–133. (in Japanese)
132. Motomura, H. and K. Matsuura (eds.). 2010 (Mar.). Fishes of Yaku–shimaIsland – A World Heritage island in the Osumi Group, Kagoshima Prefecture,southern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. viii + 264 pp.,
704 figs.
12133. Meguro, M. and H. Motomura. 2010 (Mar.). First records of a triplefin(Tripterygiidae), Enneapterygius hemimelas, from Japan, pp. 1–8 in H.
Motomura and K. Matsuura (eds.), Fishes of Yaku–shima Island – A World
Heritage island in the Osumi Group, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan.
National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo.
134. Motomura, H., G. Ogihara and K. Hagiwara. 2010 (Mar.). Distributional
range extension of a scorpionfish, Scorpaenodes quadrispinosus, in the Indo–
Pacific, and comments on synonymy of S. parvipinnis (Scorpaeniformes:
Scorpaenidae), pp. 17–26 in H. Motomura and K. Matsuura (eds.), Fishes ofYaku–shima Island – A World Heritage island in the Osumi Group, Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo.
135. Yoshida, T., S. Harazaki and H. Motomura. 2010 (Mar.). Apogonid fishes(Teleostei: Perciformes) of Yaku–shima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern
Japan, pp. 27–64 in H. Motomura and K. Matsuura (eds.), Fishes of Yaku–shimaIsland – A World Heritage island in the Osumi Group, Kagoshima Prefecture,southern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo.
136. Motomura, H., K. Kuriiwa, E. Katayama, H. Senou, G. Ogihara, M. Meguro,
M. Matsunuma, Y. Takata, T. Yoshida, M. Yamashita, S. Kimura, H. Endo, A.
Murase, Y. Iwatsuki, Y. Sakurai, S. Harazaki, K. Hidaka, H. Izumi and K.
Matsuura. 2010 (Mar.). Annotated checklist of marine and estuarine fishes ofYaku–shima Island, Kagoshima, southern Japan, pp. 65–248 in H. Motomura
and K. Matsuura (eds.), Fishes of Yaku–shima Island – A World Heritage islandin the Osumi Group, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. National Museumof Nature and Science, Tokyo.
137. Yonezawa, T., A. Shinomiya and H. Motomura. 2010 (Mar.). Freshwater
fishes of Yaku–shima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, pp. 249–
261 in H. Motomura and K. Matsuura (eds.), Fishes of Yaku–shima Island – A
World Heritage island in the Osumi Group, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern
Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo.
138. Lim, P. K. A., H. Motomura and A. C. Gambang. 2010 (Mar.). Polydactylus
luparensis, a new species of threadfin (Perciformes: Polynemidae) from the
Batang Lupar River, Sarawak, Borneo. Zootaxa, 2405: 63–68.
139. Ogihara, G., T. Yoshida, M. Ito, M. Yamashita, Y. Sakurai and H. Motomura.
2010 (May). Record of Bolbometopon muricatum (Labroidei: Scaridae) from
Kasasa, Kagoshima, southern Kyushu, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 36: 43–47.
(in Japanese)
140. Ohta, R., M. Ito and H. Motomura. 2010 (May). First record of Halicampus
grayi (Perciformes: Syngnathidae) from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan.
Nature of Kagoshima, 36: 57–59. (in Japanese)
141. Iwatsubo, H. and H. Motomura. 2010 (May). A first record of
Neosynchiropus moyeri (Perciformes: Callionymidae) from Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan and a synopsis of dragonets in Kagoshima. Nature
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of Kagoshima, 36: 65–73. (in Japanese)
142. Kawamura, N., M. Ito and H. Motomura. 2010 (May). First reliable records
of Synodus variegatus (Aulopiformes: Synodontidae) from the mainland ofKagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 36: 75–78. (inJapanese)
143. Matsunuma, M., T. Yonezawa and H. Motomura. 2010 (May). Ichthyofaunaof brackish lagoons on Kamikoshiki–jima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture,southern Japan, with records of the Asian Goby, Gymnogobius heptacanthus(Perciformes: Gobiidae). Nature of Kagoshima, 36: 79–87. (in Japanese)
144. Dewa, S., N. Dewa and H. Motomura. 2010 (May). Ecological notes on a
recently described microdesmid fish, Navigobius dewa, from Japanese waters,with a proposed new standard Japanese name for the species. Nature ofKagoshima, 36: 89–92. (in Japanese)
145. Motomura, H. and G. Ogihara. 2010 (May). Report on preliminary surveyof ichthyofauna in Suncheon Bay, Korea. Suncheon City, Korea, 15 pp.
146. Motomura, H., S. Dewa, K. Furuta and H. Senou. 2010 (Aug.). Descriptionof Pseudanthias rubrolineatus (Serranidae: Anthiinae) collected fromTake-shima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Biogeography, 12:
119–125.
147. Motomura, H. and T. Peristiwady. 2010 (Aug.). Scorpaena onaria(Scorpaenidae), previously considered to have an antitropical distribution, foundin northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, western central Pacific Ocean. Biogeography,
12: 127–131.
148. Motomura, H., S. Arbsuwan and P. Musikasinthorn. 2010 (Sept.).
Thysanichthys evides Jordan and Thompson, 1914, a senior synonym of
Sebastella littoralis Tanaka, 1917, and a valid species of Scorpaenodes(Actinopterygii: Scorpaenidae). Species Diversity, 15 (2): 71–81.
149. Motomura, H. and R. Causse. 2010 (Oct.). Revised diagnosis of
Neosebastes capricornis (Neosebastidae), with new records of the species from
Vanuatu. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 44 (4):323–327.
150. Iwatsubo, H. and H. Motomura. 2010 (Dec.). Japanese records andstandard Japanese names of Chromis analis and C. albicauda (Perciformes:
Pomacentridae). Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 65: 57–64. (inJapanese, English abstract)151. Motomura, H. and R. Causse. 2011 (Jan.). A new deepwater scorpionfish
of the genus Scorpaenopsis (Scorpaenidae) from Wallis and Futuna Islands,
southwestern Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of Marine Science, 87 (1): 45–53.
152. Matsunuma, M., S. Tafzilmeriam S. A. K., Y. Yusuf and H. Motomura. 2011
(Jan.). First records of two labrid fishes, Iniistius trivittatus and Leptojulis
14lambdastigma (Teleostei: Perciformes), from Thailand and Malaysia. Memoirs ofFaculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University, 59: 27–35.
153. Motomura, H. 2011 (Mar.). Ichthyofaunal surveys in Iwo-jima andTake-shima islands, Kagoshima Prefecture. Kagoshima University Museum
NewsLetter, No. 28: 1–3. (in Japanese)154. Okamoto, M. and H. Motomura. 2011 (Apr.). Epigonus carbonarius, a new
species of deepwater cardinalfish (Perciformes: Epigonidae) from theMarquesas Islands, with a redefinition of the Epigonus oligolepis group.
Ichthyological Research, 58 (2): 155–160.
155. Matsunuma, M. and H. Motomura. 2011 (Apr.). First records of a lionfish,
Pterois mombasae (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae), from Japan, and morphologicalcomparisons with P. antennata. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 58 (1): 27–40.
(in Japanese, English abstract)156. Motomura, H., P. Béarez and R. Causse. 2011 (May). Review of Indo–
Pacific specimens of the subfamily Scorpaeninae (Scorpaenidae), deposited in
the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, with description of a new
species of Neomerinthe. Cybium, 35 (1): 55–73.
157. Matsunuma, M., M. Aizawa, Y. Sakurai and H. Motomura. 2011 (May).
Record of a lionfish, Pterois mombasae, from Yaku–shima Island, southern
Japan, and notes on distributional implications of the species and P. antennata inJapan (Scorpaenidae). Nature of Kagoshima, 37: 3–8. (in Japanese)
158. Iwatsubo, H., S. Dewa, Y. Sakimuki, M. Ito, K. Furuta and H. Motomura.
2011 (May). First records of basslets, Pseudanthias parvirostris and Sacura
margaritacea (Seranidae: Anthiinae), from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 37: 17–22. (in Japanese)
159. Meguro, M. and H. Motomura. 2011 (May). Record of Ebinania
brephocephala (Scorpaeniformis: Psychrolutidae) from Nomaike, Kagoshima,southern Kyushu, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 37: 27–29. (in Japanese)
160. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2011 (May). Clupeiform fishes of Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 37: 49–62. (in Japanese)161. Hata, H., M. Ito, M. Yamada and H. Motomura. 2011 (May). First records ofGrammatorcynus bilineatus (Perciformes: Scombridae) from Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 37: 67–70. (in Japanese)
162. Ohashi, Y. and H. Motomura. 2011 (May). Pleuronectiform fishes ofnorthern Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 37: 71–118. (inJapanese)
163. Yoshida, T., M. Aizawa and H. Motomura. 2011 (May). Seven new records
of cardinalfishes (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from Yaku–shima Island,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 37: 119–125. (inJapanese)15164. Itou, M., M. Matsunuma, H. Iwatsubo and H. Motomura. 2011 (May).
Northernmost record of a siganid fish, Siganus guttatus (Bloch, 1787), from theKagoshima mainland, southern Kyushu, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 37: 161–
164. (in Japanese)
165. Motomura, H. and M. Aizawa. 2011 (July). Illustrated list of additions to theichthyofauna of Yaku–shima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan: 50
new records from the island. Check List, 7 (4): 448–457.
166. Okamoto, M., J. G. Nielsen and H. Motomura. 2011 (Sept.). First record of
the cusk–eel, Neobythites australiensis Nielsen (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae),from the Northern Hemisphere. Biogeography, 13: 69–71.
167. Motomura, H., P. Pruvost and R. Causse. 2011 (Oct.). A deepwater
threadfin, Polydactylus longipes (Perciformes: Polynemidae), from Vanuatu: newrecord from the South Pacific. Cybium, 35 (2): 159–161.
168. Béarez, P., S. Kerneur and H. Motomura. 2011 (Oct.). First record of
Polydactylus mullani (Teleostei: Polynemidae) from the Sultanate of Oman.
Cybium, 35 (2): 167–168.
169. Motomura, H., C. D. Struthers, M. A. McGrouther and A. L. Stewart. 2011
(Nov.). Validity of Scorpaena jacksoniensis and a redescription of S. cardinalis, asenior synonym of S. cookii (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae). IchthyologicalResearch, 58 (4): 315–332.
170. Yamashita, M., D. Golani and H. Motomura. 2011 (Nov.). A new species ofUpeneus (Perciformes: Mullidae) from southern Japan. Zootaxa, 3107: 47–58.
171. Motomura, H., Y. Takigawa, G. Ogihara and T. Yoshino. 2011 (Nov.).
Primary type status of Perca cirrosa Thunberg, 1793 (Scorpaenidae). Zootaxa,
3111: 64–66.
172. Okamoto, M., H. Motomura and T. Asahida. 2011 (Nov.). Redescription of apoorly known deepwater cardinalfish, Epigonus affinis (Actinopterygii:
Perciformes: Epigonidae), and comparison with related species. Species
Diversity, 16 (3–4): 85–92.
173. Matsunuma, M., H. Motomura, K. Matsuura, N. A. M. Shazili and M. A.
Ambak (eds.). 2011 (Nov.). Fishes of Terengganu – east coast of Malay
Peninsula, Malaysia. National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Universiti
Malaysia Terengganu, Terengganu, and Kagoshima University Museum,Kagoshima. viii + 251 pp., 678 figs.
174. Motomura, H. 2011 (Nov.). Book Introduction of “Fishes of Yaku-shimaIsland – A World Heritage island in the Osumi Group, Kagoshima Prefecture,southern Japan”. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 58 (2): 205–206.
175. Motomura, H. 2011 (Nov.). Book Introduction of “Fish collection building
and procedures manual”. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 58 (2): 206.
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176. Murase, A., S. Harazaki, M. Meguro and H. Motomura. 2011 (Dec.).
Northernmost records of three blenniid fishes (Teleostei: Perciformes) from
Yaku–shima Island, southern Japan, with their ecological notes. Bulletin of the
Biogeographical Society of Japan, 66: 61–73. (in Japanese, English abstract)177. Motomura, H., M. Matsunuma and H.-C. Ho. 2011 (Dec.). New records ofthree scorpaenid fishes (Teleostei: Scorpaeniformes) from Taiwan. Journal of theFisheries Society of Taiwan, 38 (2): 97–107.
178. Motomura, H. 2012 (Feb.). On description of new species. Iso-Nage-Joho,
4: 113. (in Japanese)
179. Motomura, H. 2012 (Apr.). Fish diversity in Kagoshima influenced by
Kuroshio Current, pp. 19–45 in Matsuura, K. (ed.) Fishes of Kuroshio. Tokai
University Press, Tokyo. (in Japanese)180. Nishiyama, H., S. Dewa, S. Chiba and H. Motomura. 2012 (Apr.). FirstJapanese record of a damselfish, Chromis earina (Perciformes, Pomacentridae),from Iou–jima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Japanese Journal of
Ichthyology, 59 (1): 61–67. (in Japanese, English abstract)181. Okamoto, M., H. Motomura, K. Hoshino, T. Yanagimoto and T. Saruwatari.
2012 (May). Occurrence and additional specimens of a scorpionfish, Idiastion
pacificum (Actinopterygii: Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae), from the central
North Pacific. Species Diversity, 17 (1): 1–5.
182. Motomura, H., M. Yamashita, M. Itou, Y. Haraguchi and Y. Iwatsuki. 2012
(May). First records of the Two–tone Goatfish, Upeneus guttatus, from Japan,
and comparisons with U. japonicus (Perciformes: Mullidae). Species Diversity,
17 (1): 7–14.
183. Hata, H., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2012 (May). First record of Aulopus
damasi (Aulopiformes: Aulopidae) from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan.
Nature of Kagoshima, 38: 9–11. (in Japanese)
184. Hata, H., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2012 (May). First records of Ellochelon
vaigiensis (Mugiliformes: Mugilidae) from the Kagoshima mainland and Yoron
Island, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 38: 73–77. (in Japanese)
185. Matsunuma, M., K. Tatsuno and H. Motomura. 2012 (May). Freshwater
fishes of Yoron–jima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 38: 109–114. (in Japanese)
186. Yamashita, M., T. Yoshida and H. Motomura. 2012 (May). An illustrated listof the Kagoshima University Museum specimens of Chondrichthyes collectedfrom Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 38: 119–138.
(in Japanese)187. Ogihara, G. and H. Motomura. 2012 (May). First record of Neocentropogonaeglefinus japonicus from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, with asynopsis of waspfishes (Scorpaeniformes: Tetrarogidae) in Kagoshima
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Prefecture. Nature of Kagoshima, 38: 139–144. (in Japanese)
188. Ohashi, Y. and H. Motomura. 2012 (May). First Japanese records of
Crossorhombus valderostratus (Bothidae) from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 38: 145–151. (in Japanese)
189. Nishiyama, K. and H. Motomura. 2012 (Aug.). A photographic guide to
wrasses of Japan. Toho–shuppan, Osaka. 303 pp. (in Japanese)
190. Okamoto, M. and H. Motomura. 2012 (Sept.). Epigonus exodon, a new
species of deepwater cardinalfish (Teleostei: Perciformes: Epigonidae) from
Réunion, western Indian Ocean. Zootaxa, 3453: 84–88.
191. Motomura, H. and T. Peristiwady. 2012 (Sept.). First equatorial records of
Neosebastes entaxis and N. longirostris (Scorpaeniformes: Neosebastidae) from
northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Biogeography, 14: 31–36.
192. Okamoto, M., H. Motomura, K. Hoshino, T. Yanagimoto and T.
Hayashibara. 2012 (Sept.). New records of the Noline Scorpionfish,
Phenacoscorpius megalops (Actinopterygii: Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae),from the Emperor Seamounts, central North Pacific. Biogeography, 14: 77–81.
193. Motomura, H. 2012 (Oct.). Fishes of northern Kagoshima Bay. Kagoshima
University Museum NewsLetter, No. 30: 15–17.
194. Hata, H., H. Motomura and H. Ishimori. 2012 (Nov.). First Japanese recordof an engraulid fish, Encrasicholina devisi (Clupeiformes), collected from
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan and comparisons with congeners.
Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 59 (2): 125–134. (in Japanese, English
abstract)
195. Nishiyama, H., M. Watai, H. Senou and H. Motomura. 2012 (Nov.).
Records of Stegastes insularis (Perciformes, Pomacentridae) from Yoron–jimaIsland, the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, and notes on
distributional implications for the species. Japan. Japanese Journal of
Ichthyology, 59 (2): 155–162. (in Japanese, English abstract)
196. Okamoto, M., P. Bartsch and H. Motomura. 2012 (Nov.). Epigonus merleni,a junior synonym of Epigonus macrops (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Epigonidae).
Species Diversity, 17 (2): 123–126.
197. Motomura, H., N. Kanehira and H. Imamura. 2012 (Nov.). Redescription of
a poorly known southeastern Pacific scorpionfish (Scorpaenidae),Phenacoscorpius eschmeyeri Parin and Mandrytsa. Species Diversity, 17 (2):145–150.
198. Motomura, H., R. Causse and C. D. Struthers. 2012 (Nov.).
Phenacoscorpius longilineatus, a new species of deepwater scorpionfish fromthe southwestern Pacific Ocean and the first records of Phenacoscorpius
adenensis from the Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae). Species Diversity,
17 (2): 151–160.
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199. Motomura, H., T. Hashimoto and K. Nishiyama. 2012 (Dec.). Record of
Oxycheilinus orientalis (Labridae) from Amami–oshima Island, Ryukyu Islands,
with notes on distributional implication and habitats in Japanese waters. Bulletinof the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 67: 75–80. (in Japanese, English
abstract)
200. Hata, H., M. Ito, Y. Haraguchi and H. Motomura. 2012 (Dec.). Third recordof Takifugu oblongus (Tetraodontidae) from Japanese coastal water. Bulletin of
the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 67: 257–260. (in Japanese, English
abstract)
201. Lautredou, A.-C., H. Motomura, C. Gallut, C. Ozouf-Costaz, C. Cruaud, G.
Lecointre and A. Dettai. 2013 (Jan.). New nuclear markers and exploration of therelationships among Serraniformes (Acanthomorpha, Teleostei): the importanceof working at multiple scales. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 67 (1):140-155. DOI 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.12.020 (available online 7 January 2013)202. Motomura, H. and S. Ishikawa (eds.). 2013 (Feb.). Fish collection building
and procedures manual. English edition. The Kagoshima University Museum,Kagoshima and the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto. 70 pp.
203. Senou, H., A. Mishiku, M. Ito and H. Motomura. 2013 (Feb.). First records
of a rare unicornfish, Naso mcdadei (Perciformes: Acanthuridae), from Japan,
with notes on biogeographical implications for the species. Bulletin of the
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science), (42): 91–96. (in Japanese,
English abstract)204. Motomura, H. 2013 (Feb.). A practical and theoretical approach to studies
in fish taxonomy for students and early career researchers, based on therevision of the family Polynemidae. Taxa, Proceedings of the Japanese Societyof Systematic Zoology, 34: 32–53. (in Japanese, English abstract)205. Motomura, H., S. Dewa, K. Furuta and K. Matsuura (eds.). 2013 (Mar.).
Fishes of Iou-jima and Take-shima islands, Mishima, Kagoshima, Japan. The
Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima and the National Museum of Natureand Science, Tsukuba. 390 pp., 883 figs.
206. Motomura, H. 2013 (Mar.). “Geikaigyofu (fishes of Kagoshima sea)” from aviewpoint of ichthyology. Kagoshima University Museum NewsLetter, No. 31:
11–12. (in Japanese)
207. Motomura, H. 2013 (Mar.). Ichthyofaunal surveys in Yoron Island, Amami
Islands, Japan. Kagoshima University Museum NewsLetter, No. 32: 1–4. (inJapanese)
208. Motomura, H. 2013 (Apr.). Book Introduction of “Special issue forJapanese names”. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 60 (1): 69–70. (inJapanese)
209. Motomura, H. 2013 (Apr.). Book Introduction of “Fish collection building
and procedures manual. English Edition”. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 60
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(1): 70. (in Japanese)
210. Tashiro, S. and H. Motomura. 2013 (May). Record of Echidna polyzona
Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from Bonotsu, Satsuma Peninsula, Kagoshima,southern Kyushu, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 39: 19–21. (in Japanese)
211. Hata, H., M. Itou, H. Ishimori and H. Motomura. 2013 (May). First recordsof Amblygaster sirm (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) from Kagoshima Prefecture,southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 39: 23–26. (in Japanese)
212. Sasaki, D., H. Motomura and S. Kimura. 2013 (May). First records ofSynodus oculeus (Aulopiformes: Synodontidae) from Yoron-jima island,
Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 39: 27–29. (in Japanese)
213. Yoshida, T., C. Nakamura and H. Motomura. 2013 (May). Dottyback fishes(Perciformes: Pseudochromidae) of Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan.
Nature of Kagoshima, 39: 31–45. (in Japanese)
214. Iwatsubo, H., M. Meguro and H. Motomura. 2013 (May). First records ofdragonets, Paradiplogrammus curvispinnis and Repomucenus lunatus(Perciformes: Callionymidae), from Kagoshima Bay, Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 39: 51–54. (in Japanese)
215. Iwatsubo, H. and H. Motomura. 2013 (May). First records of Eleotris
acanthopoma (Perciformes: Eleotridae) from Yoron-jima Island, Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 39: 55–57. (in Japanese)
216. Iwatsubo, H. and H. Motomura. 2013 (May). Records of Kelloggellacardinalis (Gobioidei: Gobiidae) from Yoron-jima island, Kagoshima Prefecture,southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 39: 59–61. (in Japanese)
217. Matsunuma, M. and H. Motomura. 2013 (May). First records ofRuri-yoshinobori, Rhinogobius sp. CO, (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Kotsuki River,Kagoshima City, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 39: 63–65. (inJapanese)
218. Iwatsubo, H. and H. Motomura. 2013 (May). Records of a ptereleotrid fish,
Ptereleotris zebra, from Yoron-jima island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 39: 67–70. (in Japanese)
219. Matsunuma, M. and H. Motomura. 2013 (May). A new lionfish of the genus
Dendrochirus (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae) from the Tuamotu Archipelago, South
Pacific Ocean. Species Diversity, 18 (1): 1–7. Doi: 10.12782/sd.18.1.001
220. Tashiro, S. and H. Motomura. 2013 (May). First records of the Blacktail
Triplefin (Perciformes: Tripterygiidae), Helcogramma aquila, from Japan, with
notes on its fresh coloration. Species Diversity, 18 (1): 9–14. Doi:
10.12782/sd.18.1.009
221. Okamoto, M. and H. Motomura. 2013 (July). Two new species of
deepwater cardinalfish from the Indo-Pacific, with a definition of the Epigonus
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pandionis group (Perciformes: Epigonidae). Ichthyological Research, 60 (4):
301–311. Doi: 10.1007/s10228-013-0352-0
222. Matsunuma, M., M. Sakurai and H. Motomura. 2013 (July). Revision of the
Indo-West Pacific genus Brachypterois (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae), withdescription of a new species from northeastern Australia. Zootaxa, 3693 (4):
401–440. Doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3693.4.1
223. Tashiro, S., T. Peristiwady and H. Motomura. 2013 (Aug.). First records ofthe Eightfinger Threadfin, Filimanus sealei (Perciformes: Polynemidae), fromIndonesia. Biogeography, 15: 45–48.
224. Matsunuma, M., L. A. Jawad and H. Motomura. 2013 (Aug.). New records
of a scorpionfish, Parapterois macrura (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae), from Oman
and Somalia, western Arabian Sea. Biogeography, 15: 49–54.
225. Yoshida, T., H. Motomura, P. Musikasinthorn and K. Matsuura (eds.). 2013
(Sept.). Fishes of northern Gulf of Thailand. National Museum of Nature andScience, Tsukuba, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, andKagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima. viii + 239 pp., 621 figs.
226. Matsunuma, M. and H. Motomura. 2013 (Nov.). First Japanese record of
Naso tergus (Perciformes: Acanthuridae) from the Tokara Islands, southern
Japan. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 60 (2): 103–110. (in Japanese, English
abstract)
227. Hibino, Y., H. Motomura and S. Kimura. 2013 (Nov.). First record of thesandperch (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae) Parapercis randalli from Yoron-jimaisland, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 60 (2):
129–134. (in Japanese, English abstract)228. Matsunuma, M., H. Senou and H. Motomura. 2013 (Nov.). First Japaneserecords of Halicampus spinirostris (Syngnathidae) from the Ryukyu Islands,
Japan. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 66 (2): 157–161. (in Japanese, English
abstract)
229. Motomura, H. 2013 (Nov.). Book Introduction of “Fishes of Iou-jima andTake-shima islands, Mishima, Kagoshima, Japan”. Japanese Journal of
Ichthyology, 66 (2): 190. (in Japanese)
230. Matsunuma, M., M. Sakurai and H. Motomura. 2013 (Nov.). Standard
Japanese names for the species of Brachypterois (Scorpaenidae). Japanese
Journal of Ichthyology, 66 (2): 194–195. (in Japanese)
231. Matsunuma, M. and H. Motomura. 2013 (Nov.). Newly recognizeddiagnostic characters of the poorly known lionfish, Pterois brevipectoralis(Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae), with notes on fresh coloration. Species Diversity, 18(2): 163–173. Doi: 10.12782/sd.18.2.163
232. Iwatsubo, H. and H. Motomura. 2013 (Nov.). Redescriptions of Chromis
notata (Temminck and Schlegel, 1843) and C. kennensis Whitley, 1964 with21

description of a new species of Chromis (Perciformes: Pomacentridae). Species
Diversity, 18 (2): 175–182. Doi: 10.12782/sd.18.2.193
233. Motomura, H. 2013 (Dec.). A mystery of ichthyofauna in Yaku Island.
Diving, Travel & Lifestyle Magazine, (391): 128–134. (in Japanese)
234. Motomura, H. 2014 (Mar.). Society, local, and academic activities related toichthyology. Kagoshima University Museum NewsLetter, No. 35: 1–16. (inJapanese)
235. Motomura, H. and K. Matsuura (eds.). 2014 (Mar.). Field guide to fishes of
Yoron Island in the middle of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. The Kagoshima
University Museum, Kagoshima and the National Museum of Nature andScience, Tsukuba. 648 pp., 1808 figs. (in Japanese)
236. Matsunuma, M., S. Tashiro, U. B. Alama and H. Motomura. 2014 (Apr.:
dated as 2013). First record of a unicornfish, Naso tergus (Perciformes:
Acanthuridae), from the Philippines. Memoirs of Faculty of Fisheries Kagoshima
University, 62: 7–10.
237. Kuriiwa, K., S. N. Chiba, H. Motomura and K. Matsuura. 2014 (May).
Phylogeography of Blacktip Grouper, Epinephelus fasciatus (Perciformes:
Serranidae), and influence of the Kuroshio Current on cryptic lineages andgenetic population structure. Ichthyological Research, doi
10.1007/s10228-014-0408-9 (27 May 2014), 61 (4): 361–374.
238. Hata, H., M. Ito and H. Motomura. 2014 (May). First record of Amblygasterleiogaster (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) from Kagoshima mainland, southern Japan.
Nature of Kagoshima, 40: 19–23. (in Japanese)
239. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2014 (May). First record of Cypselurusspilonotopterus (Beloniformes: Exocoetidae) from the Kagoshima mainland,
southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 40: 25–28. (in Japanese)
240. Matsunuma, M. and H. Motomura. 2014 (May). First records of Hozukius
emblemarius (Sebastidae) from the Amami and Tokara islands, Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 40: 29–33. (in Japanese)
241. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2014 (May). Description of an unusual
specimen of Aporops bilinearis Schultz, 1943 from Yaku-shima island,
Kagoshima, southern Japan, and comparison with specimens from the
Indo-West Pacific. Nature of Kagoshima, 40: 35–41. (in Japanese)
242. Jeong, B. and H. Motomura. 2014 (May). First records of Priacanthus
zaiserae (Perciformes: Priacanthidae) from Amami-oshima island, Kagoshima
Prefecture, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 40: 43–46. (in Japanese)
243. Hata, H., M. Ito and H. Motomura. 2014 (May). First records of Gerres
macracanthus (Perciformes: Gerreidae) from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 40: 47–52. (in Japanese)22244. Hata, H., K. Fujiwara, M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2014 (May). First
records of Plectorhinchus schotaf (Perciformes: Haemulidae) from Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 40: 53–57. (in Japanese)
245. Fujiwara, K., H. Hata and H. Motomura. 2014 (May). Nemipterid fishes of
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 40: 59–67. (inJapanese)
246. Tashiro, S., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2014 (May). Distributional
range extension of Upeneus itoui (Perciformes: Mullidae) in East Asia, with thefirst records from Tanega-shima island in the Osumi Islands, Kagoshima, Japan,
and notes on an unidentified specimen of Upeneus from Tanega-shima island.
Nature of Kagoshima, 40: 69–74. (in Japanese)
247. Hata, H., M. Ito and H. Motomura. 2014 (May). First record of
Scomberomorus commerson (Perciformes: Scombridae) from Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 40: 75–79. (in Japanese)
248. Iwatsubo, H., S. Kato and H. Motomura. 2014 (May). List of fishes off theBandokorobana Nature Park in Ei, Minamikyushu, Kagoshima, southern Japan.
Nature of Kagoshima, 40: 81–94. (in Japanese)
249. Motomura, H. 2014 (July). Fishes of Kagoshima. Kadai Journal, (195): 19.
(in Japanese)
250. Matsunuma, M. and H. Motomura. 2014 (Aug.). Northernmost records of
Lutjanus dodecacanthoides (Lutjanidae) from the Osumi Group, southern Japan.
Taxa, Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 37: 14–20.
(in Japanese, English abstract)251. Iwatsubo, H. and H. Motomura. 2014 (Aug.). A restoration method of blue
color in damselfishes (Pomacentridae), with notes on retaining blue coloration inpreserved fish specimens. Taxa, Proceedings of the Japanese Society of
Systematic Zoology, 37: 21–27. (in Japanese, English abstract)252. Okamoto, M., D. E. Stevenson and H. Motomura. 2014 (Sept.). First recordof Paracaristius maderensis from the central North Pacific and a second
specimen of Platyberyx rhyton (Perciformes: Caristiidae). Biogeography, 16: 23–29.
253. Matsunuma, M. and H. Motomura. 2014 (Nov.). A new species ofscorpionfish, Ebosia saya (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae), from the western Indian
Ocean and notes on fresh coloration of E. falcata. Ichthyological Research, doi
10.1007/s10228-014-0445-4 (12 Nov. 2014), 62: 293–312.
254. Tashiro, S. and H. Motomura. 2014 (Nov.). The validity of Helcogramma
ishigakiensis (Aoyagi, 1954) and a synopsis of species of Helcogramma fromthe Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan (Perciformes: Tripterygiidae). Species
Diversity, 19 (2): 97–110. Doi: 10.12782/sd.19.2.097
255. Motomura, H., M. Aizawa and H. Endo. 2014 (Nov.). Sebastapistes
23perplexa, a new species of scorpionfish (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae) from Japan.
Species Diversity, 19 (2): 133-139. Doi: 10.12782/sd.19.2.133
256. Matsunuma, M. and H. Motomura. 2014 (Dec.). Pterois paucispinula, a
new species of lionfish (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae) from the western Pacific
Ocean. Ichthyological Research, doi 10.1007/s10228-014-0451-6 (24 Dec.
2014), 62: 327–346.
257. Motomura, H. 2015 (Feb.). Systematics and ecology of fishes withpoisonous spines, pp. 195–217. In Matsuura, K. and Y. Nagashima (eds.)
Natural history of poisonous fishes. Hokkaido University Press, Sapporo. (inJapanese)
258. Motomura, H. 2015 (Mar.). The exploration of unrecognized fishes.
Toshoken Dayori, 69: 9. (in Japanese)
259. Motomura, H. 2015 (Mar.). Batrachoididae. Toadfishes, p. 26; Tetrarogidae.
Waspfishes, p. 29; Synanceiidae. Stonefishes, p. 30; Echeneidae. Remoras, p.
42; Polynemidae. Threadfins, pp. 60–61; Sciaenidae. Croakers, pp. 62–64. In
Kimura S., A. Arshad, H. Imamura and M. A. Ghaffar (eds.) Fishes of thenorthwestern Johor Strait, Peninsular Malaysia. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press,
Serdang and Mie University, Tsu.
260. Shibukawa, K. and H. Motomura. 2015 (Mar.). Nemipteridae. Threadfin
Breams and Monocle Bream, pp. 57–58. In Kimura S., A. Arshad, H. Imamura
and M. A. Ghaffar (eds.) Fishes of the northwestern Johor Strait, Peninsular
Malaysia. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press, Serdang and Mie University, Tsu.
261. Motomura, H. and K. Shibukawa 2015 (Mar.). Haemulidae. Sweetlips(Grunts), pp. 54–56; Lethrinidae. Emperors, p. 59. In Kimura S., A. Arshad, H.
Imamura and M. A. Ghaffar (eds.) Fishes of the northwestern Johor Strait,
Peninsular Malaysia. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press, Serdang and Mie
University, Tsu.
262. Motomura, H. 2015 (Mar.). Fish diversity in the Ryukyu Islands, pp. 56–63.
In Ecological Society of Japan (ed.) Biodiversity in the Nansei Islands and its
formation and conservation. Nanpou-shinsha, Kagoshima. (in Japanese)
263. Koeda, K., T. Yoshida, S. Tashiro and H. Motomura. 2015 (Mar.).
Ichthyofaunal Surveys in Yakushima and Tanegashima Islands. Kagoshima
University Research Center for the Pacific Islands, Occasional Papers, 56: 41–
44. (in Japanese)
264. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2015 (Mar.). A new species of anchovy,
Encrasicholina macrocephala (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae), from thenorthwestern Indian Ocean. Zootaxa, 3941 (1): 117–124.
265. Motomura, H., M. Matsunuma, T. Yoshida, S. Tashiro, B. Jeong, H. Hata, N.
Muto, O. Muda, V. Vilasri, S. Arnupapboon, K. Phuttharaksa, A. Gaje, R. Cruz, A.
Guzman, U. Alama, R. Traifalgar, R. Babaran, F. Muto and S. Ishikawa. 2015
(Apr.). Collecting specimens and building museum collections, pp. 65–69. In
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Area Capability Enhancement in Southeast Asia. Project Interim Report. The
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto.
266. Traifalgar, R., N. Muto, R. Kakioka, A. Gaje, R. Cruz, A. Guzman, U. Alama,
H. Motomura, F. Muto, R. Babaran and S. Ishikawa. 2015 (Apr.). Developmentof DNA barcode for fishes in Panay Island, Philippines, pp. 70–77. In "Coastal
Area Capability Enhancement in Southeast Asia" Project (ed.) Coastal Area
Capability Enhancement in Southeast Asia. Project Interim Report. The
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto.
267. Muto, N., R. Kakioka, O. Muda, S. Arnupapboon, B. Yangphonkhan, K.
Phuttharaksa, A. Gaje, R. Cruz, A. Guzman, U. Alama, R. Traifalgar, H.
Takeshima, H. Motomura, F. Muto, R. Babaran and S. Ishikawa. 2015 (Apr.).
Genetic population structure and phylogeography of commercially important
coastal fishes in the South China Sea, pp. 78–85. In "Coastal Area Capability
Enhancement in Southeast Asia" Project (ed.) Coastal Area Capability
Enhancement in Southeast Asia. Project Interim Report. The Research Institutefor Humanity and Nature, Kyoto.
268. Matsunuma, M., M. Itou, and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First record of
Gymnothorax intesi (Anguilliformes:Muraenidae) from off the Satsuma Peninsula,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 17–21. (inJapanese)
269. Hata, H., Y. Hibino, M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First records ofMyrichthys maculosus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the Uji Islands andKikai-jima island in the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 41: 23–29. (in Japanese)
270. Koeda, K., H. Hata and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First specimen-based
record of Zu cristatus (Lampridiformes: Trachipteridae) from Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 31–35. (in Japanese)
271. Tashiro, S. and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First record of Halicampus
spinirostris (Gasterosteiformes: Syngnathidae) from Yaku-shima island in theOsumi Islands, Kagoshima, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 37–39. (inJapanese)272. Iwatsubo, H., M. Yamaguchi, H. Hata and H. Motomura. 2015 (May).
Occurrence of Goldeye Rockfish, Sebastes thompsoni (Perciformes:
Sebastidae), from Yaku-shima island in the Osumi Group, Kagoshima Prefecture,southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 41–45. (in Japanese)273. Koeda, K. and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First record of Cephalopholis
aurantia (Perciformes: Serranidae) from Tanega-shima island and the Tokara
Islands, Kagoshima, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 47–52. (in Japanese)
274. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). Records of Grammistops
ocellatus Schultz, 1953 from Tokuno-shima and Okinawa-jima islands in the25

Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 53–55. (in Japanese)
275. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). Three apogonid fishes from
Yaku-shima island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 41: 57–60. (in Japanese)
276. Yoshida, T., K. Hagiwara and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). Northernmost
record of Jaydia albimarginatus (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from Amami-oshimaisland, Kagoshima, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 61–64. (in Japanese)
277. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). Two apogonid fishes from
Yoron-jima island in the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan.
Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 65–68. (in Japanese)
278. Hata, H., Y. Haraguchi and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First record of
Caranx lugubris (Perciformes: Carangidae) from the Tokara Islands, Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 69–72. (in Japanese)
279. Hata, H., M. Itou, M. Yamada, M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2015 (May).
Bramid fishes of Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima,
41: 73–93. (in Japanese)
280. Hata, H., Y. Haraguchi and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First record of Etelis
radiosus (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from the Tokara Islands in the Ryukyu Islands,
southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 95–99. (in Japanese)
281. Jeong, B., R. Keawsang and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First
specimen-based records of Lipocheilus carnolabrum (Perciformes: Lutjanidae)
from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 101–105. (inJapanese)282. Koeda, K. and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). Second Japanese record ofadult Pinjalo pinjalo (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from the Satsuma Peninsula,
Kagoshima, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 107–110. (in Japanese)
283. Koeda, K., T. Maekawa and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First record of
Pristipomoides zonatus (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from Amami-oshima island,
Kagoshima, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 111–114. (in Japanese)
284. Hata, H., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First records ofPomadasys argenteus (Perciformes: Haemulidae) from the mainland ofKagoshima, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 115–121. (in Japanese)
285. Hata, H., M. Itou, M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First
records of Argyrops bleekeri (Perciformes: Sparidae) from Tanegashima island
and Kagoshima mainland, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 123–127.
(in Japanese)
286. Hata, H., K. Koeda and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). Northernmost record of
Lethrinus ravus (Perciformes: Lethrinidae) from Amami-oshima island,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 129–132. (in26

Japanese)
287. Tashiro, S. and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First records of Parupeneus
biaculeatus (Perciformes: Mullidae) from Kagoshima, Japan and comparisonswith Parupeneus ciliatus. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 133–137. (in Japanese)
288. Koeda, K. and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First records of Pempheris
adusta (Perciformes: Pempheridae) from Kuchierabujima, Nakano-shima, andTokuno-shima islands in the Satsunan Islands and the Kagoshima mainland,
southern Japan with some biological comments. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 139–
144. (in Japanese)
289. Uejo, T., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First reliable records ofDrepane punctata (Perciformes: Drepaneidae) from Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 41: 145–147. (in Japanese)
290. Matsunuma, M., Y. Sakurai and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). Record of Naso
tergus (Acanthuridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 41: 149–152. (in Japanese)
291. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First record of Tetrapturusangustirostris (Perciformes: Istiophoridae) from the Ryukyu Islands on the basisof the collected specimen. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 153–156. (in Japanese)
292. Hata, H., Y. Haraguchi and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First records of
Evoxymetopon taeniatum (Perciformes: Trichiuridae) from Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 157–160. (in Japanese)
293. Hata, H., M. Itou, K. Kaburagi and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First recordsof Rastrelliger kanagurta (Perciformes: Scombridae) from Tanegashima islandand mainland of Kagoshima, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 161–
166. (in Japanese)
294. Hata, H., H. Iwatsubo and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). Second record of
Scomberomorus koreanus (Perciformes: Scombridae) from Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 41: 167–170. (in Japanese)
295. Hata, H., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). Records of
Antigonia capros (Perciformes: Carproidae) from the Satsunan Islands, southern
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 171–175. (in Japanese)
296. Fukui, Y., M. Matsunuma and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). A list of demersal
fishes collected from off Kuro-shima island in the Osumi Group, Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan, with record of Hydrolagus mitsukurii(Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae). Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 177–186. (inJapanese)
297. Tashiro, S. and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). Assessment of standard
Japanese name for Helcogramma ishigakiensis (Perciformes: Tripterygiidae).
Nature of Kagoshima, 41: 307–309. (in Japanese)27298. Motomura, H., R. Ota, M. Meguro and S. Tashiro. 2015 (May).
Enneapterygius phoenicosoma, a new species of triplefin (Tripterygiidae) fromthe western Pacific Ocean. Species Diversity, 20 (1): 1–12. Doi:
10.12782/sd.20.1.001
299. Koeda, K., S. N. Chiba and H. Motomura. 2015 (May). First Japanese
specimen-based record of Liopropoma tonstrinum (Teleostei: Serranidae), from
Minami-daito Island, Daito Islands, southern Japan. Species Diversity, 20 (1):19–
22. Doi: 10.12782/sd.20.1.019
300. Matsunuma, M. and H. Motomura. 2015 (July). A new species ofscorpionfish, Ebosia vespertina (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae), from thesouthwestern Indian Ocean. Ichthyological Research, doi
10.1007/s10228-015-0479-2 (24 July 2015), 2016, 63 (1): 110–120.
301. Motomura, H. (ed.) 2015 (July). Fishes, Gakken Live. Gakken, Tokyo. 248
pp. (in Japanese)
302. Matsunuma, M. and H. Motomura. 2015 (Aug.). Redescriptions of Pterois
radiata and Pterois cincta (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae) with notes on geographic
morphological variations in P. radiata. Ichthyological Research, doi
10.1007/s10228-015-0483-6 (20 August 2015), 2016, 63 (1): 145–172.
302. Motomura, H. (ed.) 2015 (Aug.). Dangerous creatures, Gakken Live.
Gakken, Tokyo. 203 pp. (in Japanese)
303. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2015 (Aug.). First records of an apogonid
fish, Ostorhinchus fleurieu (Perciformes: Apogonidae), from Japan. Taxa,
Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 39: 17–24. (inJapanese, English abstract)304. Fujiwara, K., M. Takayama, Y. Sakurai and H. Motomura. 2015 (Aug.).
Records of Epinephelus bleekeri (Perciformes: Serranidae) from Japan, with
notes on distributional implications. Taxa, Proceedings of the Japanese Societyof Systematic Zoology, 39: 40–46. (in Japanese, English abstract)305. Suzuki, T., D. W. Greenfield and H. Motomura. 2015 (Sept.). Two new
dwarfgobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan: Eviota
flavipinnata and Eviota rubrimaculata. Zootaxa, 4007 (3): 399–408. Doi
10.11646/zootaxa.4007.3.6
306. Motomura, H., R. Causse, P. Béarez and S. S. Mishra. 2015 (Sept.).
Redescription of the Indo-West Pacific scorpionfish (Scorpaenidae),
Neomerinthe erostris (Alcock 1896), a senior synonym of Scorpaena gibbifrons
Fowler 1938, N. rotunda Chen 1981, and N. bathyperimensis Zajonz &Klausewitz 2002. Zootaxa, 4021 (4): 529-540. Doi 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.4.3
307. Fukui, Y. and H. Motomura. 2015 (Nov.). A new species of deepwater
wrasse (Labridae: Terelabrus) from the western Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa, 4040(5): 559–568. Doi 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.5.4
28308. Motomura, H. and C. D. Struthers. 2015 (Nov.). Family Setarchidae.
Deepwater scorpionfishes, pp. 1083–1085; Family Neosebastidae. Gurnard
perches, pp. 1086–1087; Family Scorpaenidae. Scorpionfishes and lionfishes,
pp. 1088–1100. In Robers, C. D., A. L. Stewart and C. D. Struthers (eds.) The
fishes of New Zealand. Te Papa Press, Wellington. 4 vols.
309. Struthers, C. D. and H. Motomura. 2015 (Nov.). Family Sebastidae.
Seaperches, pp. 1078–1082. In Robers, C. D., A. L. Stewart and C. D. Struthers(eds.) The fishes of New Zealand. Te Papa Press, Wellington. 4 vols.
310. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2015 (Nov.). First records of the cardinalfish
Neamia notula (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 62 (2): 183–188. (in Japanese, English
abstract)
311. Hata, H., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2015 (Dec.). Distributional range
extension of Herklotsichthys quadrimaculatus (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) insouthern Japan. South Pacific Studies, 36 (1): 39–48.
312. Hata, H., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2015 (Dec.). First Japanese record of
the haemulid fish Pomadasys kaakan (Perciformes), from Kagoshima Prefecture,southern Japan. Species Diversity, 20 (2): 115–120. Doi 10.12782/sd.20.2.115
313. Motomura, H. and Y. Kanade. 2015 (Dec.). Review of the scorpionfish
genus Pteroidichthys (Scorpaenidae), with descriptions of two new species.
Zootaxa, 4057 (4): 490–510. Doi 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.4.2
314. Muto, N., U. B. Alama, H. Hata, A. M. T. Guzman, R. Cruz, A. Gaje, R. F. M.
Traifalgar, R. Kakioka, H. Takeshima, H. Motomura, F. Muto, R. P. Babaran and
S. Ishikawa. 2015 (Dec.). Genetic and morphological differences among thethree species of the genus Rastrelliger (Perciformes: Scombridae).
Ichthyological Research, doi 10.1007/s10228-015-0498-z (11 Dec. 2015)
315. Hata, H., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2015 (Dec.). The northernmost
record of a wrasse, Bodianus tanyokidus (Perciformes: Labridae), from theTokara Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Bulletin of the
Biogeographical Society of Japan, 70: 193–196. (in Japanese, English abstract)316. Koeda, K., K. Kaburagi and H. Motomura. 2015 (Dec.). Records ofPempheris oualensis (Perciformes: Pempheridae) from the Satsunan Islands,
Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan,
70: 275–282. (in Japanese, English abstract)317. Motomura, H. (ed.) 2015 (Dec.). Chapter 4, fishes, pp. 73–95. In Oba, Y.
(ed.) Bioluminescence in the world. Gakken, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
318. Motomura, H., R. Causse and C. D. Struthers. 2016 (Jan.). Redescriptionof the Indo-Pacific scorpionfish (Scorpaenidae), Scorpaenodes guamensis(Quoy & Gaimard 1824), a senior synonym of seven nominal species. Zootaxa,
4067 (3): 345–360. Doi 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.4
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319. Kobayashi, T., T. Komiya, H. Yuasa, T. Sasaki, H. Motomura and F.
Akishinomiya (eds.). Organisms drawn by Jakuchu. Gakken Plus, Tokyo. 168 pp.
(in Japanese)
320. Motomura, H. 2016 (Feb.). Ichthyofaunal surveys in an uninhabited islandoff Malaysia. Kagoshima University Museum NewsLetter, No. 25: 6–9. (inJapanese)
321. Motomura, H. 2016 (Mar.). The ichthyofauna of Yoron-jima Island in thesouthern extremity of the Amami Islands, Japan, including comparisons withsimilar nearby regions. pp. 71–78. In Kawai, K., R. Terada and S. Kuwamura(eds.) The Amami Islands: Culture, Society, Industry and Nature. Hokuto Shobou,
Kyoto.
322. Yoshida, T., H. Hata, K. Koeda, B. Jeong and H. Motomura. 2016 (Mar.).
Ichthyofaunal surveys in Amami-oshima island. Kagoshima University ResearchCenter for the Pacific Islands, Occasional Papers, 57: 89–90.
323. Motomura, H. 2016 (Mar.). At the forefront of fish diversity studies in theSatsunan Islands, pp. 261–269. In Kagoshima University Study Group Working
on Biodiversity (ed.) Biodiversity in the Amami Islands. Nanpou-shinsha,
Kagoshima. (in Japanese)
324. Motomura, H. 2016 (Mar.). The Amami Islands: one of the highest fish
species diversity in the world, pp. 26–29. In Suzuki, E., S. Kuwahara, M. Hira, T.
Yamamoto, Y. Sakamaki and K. Kawai (eds.) Biodiversity and conservation: acase study in the Amami Islands, vol. 2. Kagoshima University Research Centerfor the Pacific Islands, Booklet No. 5. Hokuto-shobo, Tokyo.
325. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2016 (Mar.; dated as 2015). Records of twogroupers, Epinephelus retouti and Saloptia powelli (Perciformes: Serranidae),from the Satsunan Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, Southern Japan. Memoirs ofFaculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University, 64: 1–9.
326. Motomura, H., A. Habano, Y. Arita, M. Matsuoka, K. Furuta, K. Koeda, T.
Yoshida, Y. Hibino, B. Jeong, S. Tashiro, H. Hata, Y. Fukui, K. Eguchi, T. Inaba, T.
Uejo, A. Yoshiura, Y. Ando, Y. Haraguchi, H. Senou and K. Kuriiwa. 2016 (Mar.;
dated as 2015). The ichthyofauna of the Uji Islands, East China Sea: 148 newrecords of fishes with notes on biogeographical implications. Memoirs of Facultyof Fisheries Kagoshima University, 64: 10–34.
327. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2016 (Mar.). First specimen-based records of
Pristipomoides flavipinnis (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from the Tokara and Amami
Islands, Japan. South Pacific Studies, 36 (2): 103–110.
328. Fukui, Y. and H. Motomura. 2016 (Apr.). Terelabrus flavocephalus sp. nov.,a new hogfish (Perciformes: Labridae) from the Maldives, Indian Ocean.
Ichthyological Research, doi 10.1007/s10228-016-0523-x (27 Apr. 2016), 63 (4):529–535 (7 Nov. 2016)
329. Hata, H., K. Kaburagi and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First records of30

Sardinella melanura (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) from Tanega-shima island,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 27–32. (inJapanese)
330. Hata, H., M. Yamaguchi, H. Iwatsubo and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First
records of a species of Chlorophthalmus (Chlorophthalmidae) from the Ryukyu
Islands, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 33–37. (in Japanese)
331. Hata, H., M. Itou, Y. Haraguchi and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First recordsof Metavelifer multiradiatus (Lampridiformes: Veliferidae) from Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 39–43. (in Japanese)
332. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First record of Antennarius
randalli (Lophiiformes: Antennariidae) from Kikai-jima island, Amai Islands,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 45–48. (inJapanese)
333. Hata, H., H. Iwatsubo, Y. Haraguchi, K. Mori and H. Motomura. 2016 (May).
A synopsis of alfonsinos (Beryciformes: Berycidae) in Kagoshima Prefecture,
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 49–56. (in Japanese)
334. Eguchi, K. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Holocentrid fishes of the Ryukyu
Islands, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 57–112. (in Japanese)
335. Itou, M., K. Koeda and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First records of Pegasus
volitans (Syngnathiformes: Pagasidae) from Kyushu, Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 42: 113–117. (in Japanese)
336. Koeda, K., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First records of Grooved
Razorfish Centriscus scutatus (Syngnathiformes: Centriscidae) from Kyushu,
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 119–122. (in Japanese)
337. Matsunuma, M., Y. Fukui, M. Yamada and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First
records of Thysanophrys celebica (Platycephalidae) from Kyushu, Japan.
Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 123–128. (in Japanese)
338. Inaba, T, H. Hata and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First records of
Neoscombrops pacificus (Perciformes: Acropomatidae) from Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 129–133. (in Japanese)
339. Yoshida, T., H. Iwatsubo and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First record ofGrammistes sexlineatus (Perciformes: Serranidae) from Kyushu, Japan. Natureof Kagoshima, 42: 135–138. (in Japanese)
340. Yoshida, T., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Record of
Pogonoperca punctata (Valenciennes, 1830) from Tanega-shima island in theOsumi Islands, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 139–142. (in Japanese)
341. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First record of Pseudogramma
polycantha (Perciformes: Serranidae) from Tanega-shima island in the Osumi
Islands, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 143–146. (in Japanese)31342. Hata, H., K. Koeda, K. Kaburagi, M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2016
(May). Records of three species of groupers (Perciformes: Serranidae),
Chromileptes altivelis, Epinephelus fuscoguttatus, and E. latifasciatus, from
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 147–156. (inJapanese)343. Hata, H., H. Tsuchida and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First record of
Callanthias japonicus (Perciformes: Callanthiidae) from the Uji Islands,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 157–161. (inJapanese)344. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Distributional records of
Apogonichthyoides umbratilis (Perciformes: Apogonidae) based on collected
specimens in Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42:
163–167. (in Japanese)
345. Yoshida, T., M. Yamada, T. Maekawa and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First
specimen-based records of Siphamia argentea (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 169–172. (inJapanese)
346. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First records of Gymnapogonjaponicus (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from the Osumi Islands, Kagoshima,
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 173–177. (in Japanese)
347. Iwatsubo, H., S. Kimura and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First Japaneserecords of the Slender Red Scad, Decapterus smithvanizi (Perciformes:
Carangidae), from Kagoshima and the East China Sea. Nature of Kagoshima,
42: 179–182. (in Japanese)
348. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First record of Carangoides
fulvoguttatus (Perciformes: Carangidae) from Amami-oshima island, Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 183–186. (in Japanese)
349. Fujiwara, K. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Ponyfishes (Perciformes:
Leiognathidae) of Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima,
42: 187–202. (in Japanese)
350. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Record of Brama orcini(Perciformes: Bramidae) found in the stomach of Scomber australasicus(Scombridae) from the Tokara Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan.
Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 203–206. (in Japanese)
351. Hata, H., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First records ofEmmelichthys struhsakeri (Perciformes: Emmelichthyidae) from the Tokara
Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 207–
211. (in Japanese)
352. Jeong, B., M. Nakae, K. Koeda and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First
specimen-based records of Lutjanus vitta (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from
Amami-oshima island, Kagoshima, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 213–217.
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(in Japanese)
353. Eguchi, K. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First records of Paracaesio
sordida (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from Tanega-shima and Amami-oshimaislands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 219–
223. (in Japanese)
354. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First record of Pristipomoides
multidens (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from Tanegashima island, Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 225–229. (in Japanese)
355. Hata, H., K. Kaburagi and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Record of Gerres
macracanthus (Perciformes: Gerreidae) from Tanega-shima island in the Osumi
Islands, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 231–235. (in Japanese)
356. Hata, H., M. Yamada, T. Maekawa and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Recordsof Plectorhinchus unicolor (Perciformes: Haemulidae) from the east coast ofOsumi Peninsula and Amami-oshima island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 237–241. (in Japanese)
357. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First record of Hapalogenys analis(Perciformes: Haemulidae) from Uchinoura Bay in the east coast of Osumi
Peninsula, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42:
243–248. (in Japanese)
358. Hata, H., M. Nakae and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First record of
Parascolopsis inermis (Perciformes: Nemipteridae) from Amami-oshima island,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 249–254. (inJapanese)
359. Hata, H., M. Yamada and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First record ofPentapodus aureofasciatus (Perciformes: Nemipteridae) from Amami-oshimaisland, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 255–
258. (in Japanese)
360. Koeda, K., T. Maekawa and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Northernmost
record of the Pink Ear Emperor, Lethrinus lentjan (Perciformes: Lethrinidae) from
Amami-oshima island, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42:
259–263. (in Japanese)
361. Uejo, T., K. Koeda and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First record of Atrobucca
nibe (Perciformes: Sciaenidae) from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 42: 265–268. (in Japanese)
362. Hata, H., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First records ofGlaucosoma buergeri (Perciformes: Glaucosomatidae) from the Osumi andTokara islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima,
42: 269–273. (in Japanese)
363. Koeda, K. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First record of the Mango
Angelfish, Centropyge shepardi (Pomacanthidae: Perciformes), from the Ryukyu
33Archipelago. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 275–278. (in Japanese)
364. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First record of Cheilodactylus
zonatus (Perciformes: Cheilodactylidae) from Tokuno-shima island in the Amami
Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 279–
287. (in Japanese)
365. Koeda, K., H. Iwatsubo and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Record of Chromis
analis (Perciformes: Pomacentridae) from Kikai-jima island in the Amami Islands,
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 289–292. (in Japanese)
366. Fukui, Y., K. Koeda and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Records of Iniistius
twistii (Perciformes: Labridae) from Amami-oshima and Kakeroma-jima islands,
Ryukyu Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, with notes onmorphological changes with growth. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 293–298. (inJapanese)
367. Koeda, K. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Northernmost records of
Hipposcarus longiceps (Scaridae), with notes on sexual dimorphism anddichromatism. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 299–304. (in Japanese)
368. Tashiro, S., Y. Kimura and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Record of Blenniellainterrupta (Blenniidae) from Tanega-shima island in the Osumi Islands,
Kagoshima, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 305–309. (in Japanese)
369. Fukui, Y. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). The second Japanese record of
Cirripectes filamentosus (Perciformes: Blennidae) from the Koshiki Islands,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 311–314. (inJapanese)
370. Koeda, K. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Northernmost specimen-based
record of Onespot Rabbitfish, Siganus (Lo) unimaculatus (Siganidae:
Perciformes) from Amami-oshima island, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 42: 315–320. (in Japanese)
371. Hata, H., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First records of
Evoxymetopon poyei (Perciformes: Trichiuridae) from Kagoshima Prefecture,southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 321–325. (in Japanese)
372. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Records of Rastrelliger kanagurta(Perciformes: Scombridae) from Shimokoshiki-shima island, Uchinoura Bay, andKagoshima Bay, northern Kagoshima, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 327–
332. (in Japanese)
373. Hata, H., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). First records ofLagocephalus lagocephalus (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 333–338. (inJapanese)374. Koeda, K., K. Oki and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Record of a rare
Sharp-tail Sunfish, Masturus lanceolatus (Molidae: Tetraodontiformes), stranded34

on Amami-oshima island, Ryukyu Archipelago. Nature of Kagoshima, 42: 339–
342. (in Japanese)
375. Iwatsubo, H., S. Kato, H. Motomura, S. Kidane, T. Uejo and M. Iwatsubo.
2016 (May). List of fishes off the Bandokorohana Nature Park in Ei,
Minami-kyushu, Kagoshima, southern Japan, 2014–2015. Nature of Kagoshima,
42: 353–360. (in Japanese)
376. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2016 (May). Two new species of the genus
Encrasicholina (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae): E. intermedia from the western
Indian Ocean and E. gloria from the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and Mediterranean.
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 64: 79–88.
377. Motomura, H., R. Causse and P. Béarez. 2016 (June). Validity of a poorly
known western Pacific scorpionfish (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae), Neomerinthe
pallidimacula (Fowler, 1938). Cybium, 40 (2): 109–113.
378. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2016 (June). Validity of Encrasicholina
pseudoheteroloba (Hardenberg 1933) and redescription of Encrasicholina
heteroloba (Rüppell 1837), a senior synonym of Encrasicholina devisi (Whitley1940) (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae). Ichthyological Research, doi
10.1007/s10228-016-0529-4 (20 June 2015), 64 (1): 18–28 (25 Jan. 2017)379. Hata, H., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2016 (June). First record ofBrama orcini (Perciformes: Bramidae) from Tachibana Bay, Nagasaki Prefecture,southern Japan. Transactions of the Nagasaki Biological Society, 78: 22–24. (inJapanese)380. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2016 (June). First record of the snake mackerel
Epinnula magistralis (Perciformes: Gempylidae) from the Tokara Islands, Japan.
Fauna Ryukyuana, 30: 11–15.
381. Hata, H., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2016 (June). Ariomma brevimanum(Perciformes: Ariommatidae) from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan.
Nanki-seibutsu, 58 (1): 44–47. (in Japanese)
382. Muto, N., H. Takeshima, R. Kakioka, U. B. Alama, A. M. T. Guzman, R. S.
Cruz, A. C. Gaje, R. F. M. Traifalgar, H. Motomura, F. Muto, R. P. Babaran and S.
Ishikawa. 2016 (July). Rapid and cost-effective molecular identification of thethree mackerel species of the genus Rastrelliger (Perciformes: Scombridae)
using PCR-RFLP analysis. Marine Biodiversity, doi 10.1007/s12526-016-0537-7(5 July 2016), 47: 609–611 (June 2017)383. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2016 (July). A new cardinalfish, Verulux
solmaculata (Perciformes: Apogonidae), from Papua New Guinea and Australia.
Ichthyological Research, doi 10.1007/s10228-016-0539-2 (11 July 2016), 64 (1):64–70 (25 Jan. 2017)384. Motomura, H. (ed.) 2016 (July). Fishes, Q&A. Gakken Plus, Tokyo. 128 pp.
(in Japanese)35385. Motomura, H. (ed.) 2016 (July). Fishes, Gakken Live. Portable. Gakken
Plus, Tokyo. 16 pp. (in Japanese)
386. Motomura, H. (ed.) 2016 (July). Dangerous creatures, Gakken Live.
Portable. Gakken Plus, Tokyo. 16 pp. (in Japanese)
387. Motomura, H. 2016 (July). Polynemidae. Threadfins, pp. 2621–2628. In
Carpenter, K. E. and N. De Angelis (eds.). The living marine resources of theeastern central Atlantic. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes.
Vol. 4. Bony fishes part 2 (Perciformes to Tetradontiformes) and sea turtles. FAO,
Rome.
388. Motomura, H. (ed.) 2016 (July). Fishes, Gakken Live. Revised edition.
Gakken Plus, Tokyo. 248 pp. (in Japanese)
389. Iwatsubo, H., S. Kato and H. Motomura (eds.). 2016 (July). Field guide tofishes of Ei in southern Kyushu, Japan. Kagoshima Museum of Aquatic
Biodiversity, Makurazaki, the Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima, andSeahorse Ways, Minami-kyushu. 80 pp. (in Japanese)
390. Iwatsubo, H. and H. Motomura. 2016 (Aug.). Japanese records andstandard Japanese names of Chromis analis and C. xouthos (Perciformes:
Pomacentridae). Taxa, Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic
Zoology, 41: 40–45. (in Japanese)
391. Matsunuma, M., Y. Fukui and H. Motomura. 2016 (Aug.). Freshwater
fishes of Kagoshima Ctiy, southern Kyushu, Japan. The Kagoshima University
Museum, Kagoshima. 86 pp., 221 figs. (in Japanese)
392. Motomura, H., R. Causse and C. D. Struthers. 2016 (Sept.). First recordsof the deepwater scorpionfish, Lioscorpius trifasciatus (Setarchidae), fromoutside Australian waters. Biogeography, 18: 23–28.
393. Hata, H., M. Nishimura and H. Motomura. 2016 (Sept.). First
specimen-based record of Epinephelus quoyanus (Perciformes: Serranidae)
from Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Biogeography, 18: 47–52.
394. Motomura, H. 2016 (Nov.). An amazing discovery of an unknown large fish,
p. 8. In Tokai University Press (ed.) We Love Fishes. Tokai University Press,
Hadano. (in Japanese)
395. Yoshida, T., K. Koeda and H. Motomura. 2016 (Nov.). First Japanese
specimen-based records of Cypho zaps (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae) from
Yonaguni-jima Island, the Yaeyama Islands. Species Diversity, 21 (2):171–175.
Doi: 10.12782/sd.21.2.171
396. Matsunuma, M., A. G. Mazlan, A. Arshad, Y. G. Seah, S. Tafzilmeriam S. A.
K., A. A. Ramasamy, R. Babaran, Y. Fukui and H. Motomura. 2016 (Nov.).
Distribution range extensions of Parapercis bicoloripes and P. diplospilus(Perciformes: Pinguipedidae) in the South China Sea and the adjacent waters,with notes on ontogenetic changes in P. bicoloripes. Species Diversity, 2136

(2):187–196. Doi 10.12782/sd.21.2.187
397. Fukui, Y., N. Muto and H. Motomura. 2016 (Dec.). A new species of labridfish Oxycheilinus samurai from the western Pacific Ocean. IchthyologicalResearch, doi 10.1007/s10228-016-0561-4 (8 Dec. 2016), 64 (2): 212–220 (4Aug. 2017)398. Hata, H., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2016 (Dec.). First record of
Bathycallionymus formosanus (Perciformes: Callionymidae) from Nagasaki
Prefecture, southern Japan. Transactions of the Nagasaki Biological Society, 79:
36–39. (in Japanese)
399. Motomura, H., P. Béarez and R. Causse. 2016 (Dec.). Taxonomic status of
Scorpaena rawakensis Quoy and Gaimard, 1824 (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae).
Cybium, 40 (4): 326–328.
400. Matsunuma, M., S. Bogorodsky, H. Motomura and A. O. Mal. 2016 (Dec.).
Objective record of Pterois russelii (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae) from the Red Sea.
Cybium, 40 (4): 333–337.
401. Motomura, H., U. B. Alama, N. Muto, R. Babaran, and S. Ishikawa (eds.).
2017 (Jan.). Commercial and bycatch market fishes of Panay Island, Republic of
the Philippines. The Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima, University of
the Philippines Visayas, Iloilo, and Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,
Kyoto. 246 pp., 911 figs.
402. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (Jan.). A new species of anchovy,
Encrasicholina auster (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae) from Fiji, southwestern
Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, doi
10.1080/03014223.2016.1268177 (8 Jan. 2017), 44 (2): 122–128 (27 Apr. 2017)403. Matsunuma, M. and H. Motomura. 2017 (Jan.). Review of the genus
Banjos (Perciformes: Banjosidae) with descriptions of two new species and a
new subspecies. Ichthyological Research, doi 10.1007/s10228-016-0569-9 (19Jan. 2017), 64 (3): 265–294 (July 2017)404. Matsunuma, M., M. Yamada and H. Motomura. 2017 (Jan.). Northernmost
record of Parapercis randalli (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae) from Uchinoura Bay,
Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, with notes on ontogenetic morphological changes.
Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 71: 15–24. (in Japanese,
English abstract)405. Okamoto, M. and H. Motomura. 2017 (Jan.). First Japanese record of theanthiine fish Plectranthias xanthomaculatus from west of the Amami Islands,
East China Sea. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 71: 47–52. (inJapanese, English abstract)406. Fujiwara, K. and H. Motomura. 2017 (Jan.). Review of Japanese records ofPentaprion longimanus (Perciformes: Gerreidae). Bulletin of the BiogeographicalSociety of Japan, 71: 151–156. (in Japanese, English abstract)37407. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (Jan.). Northernmost record of theanchovy, Encrasicholina pseudoheteroloba (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae)
collected from Amami-oshima island, Japan. Bulletin of the BiogeographicalSociety of Japan, 71: 203–208. (in Japanese, English abstract)408. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2017 (Jan.). First record of a rare
cardinalfish, Ostorhinchus cheni (Apogonidae), from Amami-oshima Island,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Societyof Japan, 71: 253–258. (in Japanese, English abstract)409. Hata, H., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2017 (Jan.). Distributional range
extension of Encrasicholina heteroloba (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae) in Japan.
Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 71: 281–288. (in Japanese,
English abstract)410. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (Jan.). Record of Nemipterus peronii(Perciformes: Nemipteridae) from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan.
Nanki-seibutsu, 58 (2): 215–218. (in Japanese)
411. Koeda, K., T. Maekawa, H. Wada and H. Motomura. 2017 (Jan.; dated as2016). Records of the Orange Goatfish, Mulloidichthys pflugeri (Teleostei:
Mullidae), from Amami-oshima and Yonaguni-jima islands in the Ryukyu
Archipelago, southern Japan. South Pacific Studies, 37 (1): 1–8.
412 Motomura, H. 2017 (Jan.). Field survey by Kagoshima University fish team.
FY2016 Report of the Angkor Monument Maintenance Corporation, Siem Reap,
59–60. (in Japanese)
413. Motomura, H. and S. Harazaki. 2017 (Feb.). Annotated checklist of marine
and freshwater fishes of Yaku-shima island in the Osumi Islands, Kagoshima,southern Japan, with 129 new records. Bulletin of the Kagoshima University
Museum, 9: 1–183.
414. Hibino, Y., M. Matsunuma, H. Motomura and S. Kimura. 2017 (Feb.). FirstJapanese records of the ophichthid eel (Actinopterygii: Anguilliformes),
Pisodonophis sangjuensis from the East China Sea. Taxa, Proceedings of theJapanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 42: 41–47. (in Japanese, English
abstract)
415. Motomura, H. and Biodiversity Hotspot Fish Team of National Museum of
Nature and Science. 2017 (Feb.). List of Japanese endemic fish species.
National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba. 4 pp. (in Japanese)
416. Motomura, H. (ed.). 2017 (Feb.). Aquatic life. Exciting and discovery!
Dwellings of life introduced by schoolbooks. Vol. 4. Gakken Plus, Tokyo. (inJapanese)
417. Koeda, K., T. Fujii, S. Koeda and H. Motomura. 2017 (Mar.; dated as 2016).
Fishes of Yoro-jima and Uke-jima islands in the Amami Islands: 89 new
specimen-based records. Memoirs of Faculty of Fisheries Kagoshima University,
65: 1–20.
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418. Hata, H., U. B. Alama, R. S. Cruz, R. P. Babaran and H. Motomura. 2017
(Mar.; dated as 2016). First specimen-based record of Taractes rubescens(Perciformes: Bramidae) from the Philippines. Memoirs of Faculty of Fisheries
Kagoshima University, 65: 27–31.
419. Motomura, H. 2017 (Mar.). Fish collection building at University of thePhilippines Visayas and ichthyofaunal surveys in Panay Island. Kagoshima
University Museum NewsLetter, No. 40: 8–11. (in Japanese)
420. Motomura, H. 2017 (Mar.). Review of the ichthyofauna of Yaku-shimaisland in the Osumi Islands, southern Japan, with 15 new records of marine
fishes, pp. 74–80. In Kawai, K., R. Terada and S. Kuwamura (eds.) The Osumi
Islands: Culture, Society, Industry and Nature. Hokuto Shobou, Kyoto.
421. Matsunuma, M., H. Motomura and S. V. Bogorodsky. 2017 (Apr.). Review
of Indo-Pacific dwarf lionfishes (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae) in the Dendrochirus
brachypterus complex, with description of a new species from the western Indian
Ocean. Ichthyological Research, doi 10.1007/s10228-017-0583-6 (20 Apr. 2017)422. Hata, H., H. Iwatsubo and H. Motomura. 2017 (Apr.). First specimen-based
records of Pristipomoides auricilla (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from the Satsunan
Islands, Japan. Biological Magazine Okinawa, 55: 19–26.
423. Lavoué, S., J. Bertrand, W.-J. Chen, H.-C. Ho, H. Motomura, T. Sado and
M. Miya. 2017 (Apr.). Phylogenetic position of the rainbow sardine Dussumieria(Dussumieriidae) and its bearing on the early evolution of the Clupeoidei. Gene,
623: 41–47. Doi 10.1016/j.gene.2017.04.032
424. Matsunuma, M., S. V. Bogorodsky, A. O. Mal, Y. Ando and H. Motomura.
2017 (May). Reinstatement of Minous inermis and M. trachycephalus(Synanceiidae) to the checklist of Red Sea fishes, with comments on M.
monodactylus. Marine Biodiversity, doi 10.1007/s12526-017-0716-1 (9 May
2017)425. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of Sardinella lemuru(Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) from Kochi Prefecture, southern Japan andcomments on the species’ distribution in Japanese waters. Bulletin of the
Shikoku Institute of Natural History, 10: 41–46. (in Japanese)
426. Koeda, K. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). A new species of Pempheris(Perciformes: Pempheridae) endemic to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan.
Ichthyological Research, doi 10.1007/s10228-017-0586-3 (24 May 2017), 65:
21–28 (14 Jan. 2018)427. Matsunuma, M., T. Yoshida and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). Records ofSpottobrotula mahodadi (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae) and Hapalogenys
bengalensis (Perciformes: Hapalogenyidae) from the Andaman Sea, with a noteon the fresh coloration of S. mahodadi. Species Diversity, 22 (1): 73–79. Doi
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428. Tashiro, S. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First Japanese record of the39

Barred Perchlet, Plectranthias fourmanoiri (Perciformes: Serranidae), from the
Ryukyu Islands. Species Diversity, 22 (1): 81–85. Doi 10.12782/sd.22_81
429. Nakamura, J., K. Koeda, H. Hata and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First
records of Gymnothorax isingteena (Muraenidae: Anguilliformes) from themainland of Kagoshima, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 17–21. (inJapanese)
430. Hata, H., K. Nishida and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of Conger
cinereus (Anguilliformes: Congridae) from Nomaike, Bonotsu, Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 23–26. (in Japanese)
431. Hata, H., K. Koeda and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First records of
Oxyconger leptognathus (Anguilliformes: Muraenesocidae) from Uchinoura Bay,
southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 27–30. (in Japanese)
432. Hata, H., M. Yamada and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of
Herklotsichthys quadrimaculatus (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) from Uchinoura Bay,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 31–36. (inJapanese)
433. Hata, H., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). Records of two
species of round-belly sardines (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae: Amblygaster), A.
leiogaster and A. sirm, from Tanega-shima island, Osumi Islands, Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 37–44. (in Japanese)
434. Fujiwara, K. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First records of Synodus
macrops (Aulopiformes: Synodontidae) from coastal waters of Kyushu, southern
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 45–48. (in Japanese)
435. Hata, H., M. Yamada and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of
Synodus jaculum (Aulopiformes: Synodontidae) from Uchinoura Bay,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 49–52. (inJapanese)
436. Inaba, T., H. Hata and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of Echiodon
anchipterus (Ophidiiformes: Carapidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Natureof Kagoshima, 43: 53–55. (in Japanese)
437. Yoshida, T., Y. Kimura and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of
Antennatus tuberosus (Lophiiformes: Antennariidae) from Kuchierabu-jimaisland, Osumi Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 43: 63–65. (in Japanese)
438. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First records of Antennarius
hispidus (Lophiiformes: Antennariidae) from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 67–70. (in Japanese)
439. Wibowo, K., S. Tashiro and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). Seahorses of thegenus Hippocampus (Syngnathidae) from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern
Japan, with a new record of H. mohnikei Bleeker, 1853. Nature of Kagoshima,40

43: 71–76.
440. Fujiwara, K., M. Itou, H. Iwatsubo and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First
records of Cypselurus furcatus and Cypselurus spilonotopterus (Beloniformes:
Exocoetidae) from the Kagoshima mainland, southern Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 43: 81–87. (in Japanese)
441. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). Lepidotrigla japonica (Triglidae)
from Eniyabanare-jima island, Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern
Japan: first record from the Ryukyu Islands. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 89–92. (inJapanese)442. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First records of Hexagrammos
agrammus (Perciformes: Hexagrammidae) from the west coast of Satsuma
Peninsula, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43:
93–100. (in Japanese)
443. Iwatsubo, H., W. Hashiguchi and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). Northernmost
and first record of Ambassis miops (Perciformes: Ambassidae) from Kyushu,
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 101–103. (in Japanese)
444. Hata, H., and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of Epinephelus
octofasciatus (Perciformes: Serranidae) from Kagoshima Bay, Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 105–109. (in Japanese)
445. Yoshida, T., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First Ryukyu
records of Sacura margaritacea (Perciformes: Serranidae) from Nakano-shimaisland, Tokara Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 43: 111–116. (in Japanese)
446. Yoshida, T., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First records ofSiphamia tubifer (Apogonidae) from the mainland of Kagoshima, southern Japan.
Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 117–121. (in Japanese)
447. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of Decapterussmithvanizi (Perciformes: Carangidae) from Uchinoura Bay, Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 123–126. (in Japanese)
448. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of Trachinotus blochii(Perciformes: Carangidae) from Kagoshima Bay, Kagoshima Prefecture,southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 127–130. (in Japanese)
449. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First records of Caranx tille(Perciformes: Carangidae) from Uchinoura Bay, Kagoshima Prefecture,southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 131–136. (in Japanese)450. Koeda, K., M. Yamada and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First records ofEmperor Red Snapper Lutjanus sebae (Cuvier, 1816) from Kyushu, Japan.
Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 137–140. (in Japanese)
451. Hata, H., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). Records of two species of41sweetlips (Perciformes: Haemulidae), Plectorhinchus flavomaculatus and P.
unicolor, from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43:
141–148. (in Japanese)
452. Hata, H., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First records of
Hapalogenys sennin (Perciformes: Haemulidae) from Tanega-shima island in
the Osumi Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 43: 149–153. (in Japanese)
453. Hata, H., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record ofNemipterus peronii (Perciformes: Nemipteridae) from Tanega-shima island,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 155–159. (inJapanese)454. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of Argyrops bleekeri(Perciformes: Sparidae) from Yaku-shima island, southern Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 43: 161–164. (in Japanese)
455. Bandai, A., H. Hata and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of
Lethrinus microdon (Perciformes: Lethrinidae) from the Osumi Islands,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 165–168. (inJapanese)
456. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First records of Lethrinus
amnoineneis (Perciformes: Lethrinidae) from the Tokara Islands, Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 169–174. (in Japanese)
457. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of Pomacanthus
semicirculatus (Perciformes: Pomacanthidae) from Satsuma-sendai, southern
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 175–179. (in Japanese)
458. Koeda, K., Y. Kimura and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First records ofLongnoze Hawkfish Oxycirrhites typus (Cirrhitidae) from Kagoshima Prefecture,
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 181–184. (in Japanese)
459. Iwatsubo, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). A record of Chromis
atripectoralis (Perciformes: Pomacentridae), from Tanegashima island, Osumi
Islands, Kagoshima, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 185–188. (in Japanese)
460. Iwatsubo, H., W. Hashiguchi and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First recordsof Kuhlia rupestris (Perciformes: Kuhliidae) from Kyushu, Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 43: 189–192. (in Japanese)
461. Hata, H., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of Nomeus
gronovii (Perciformes: Nomeidae) from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan.
Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 193–196. (in Japanese)
462. Hata, H., H. Iwatsubo and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of
Ariomma brevimanum (Perciformes: Ariommatidae) from Kagoshima Bay,
southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 197–200. (in Japanese)42463. Koeda, K., H. Hata, T. Maekawa and H. Motomura. 2017 (May).
Northernmost records of Scarus spinus collected from Amami-oshima island,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 207–210. (inJapanese)464. Tashiro, S. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). Distributional records ofSpringerichthys bapturus (Perciformes: Tripterygiidae) in Kagoshima Prefecture,southern Japan, with notes on sexual dimorphism. Nature of Kagoshima, 43:
211–217. (in Japanese)
465. Kawama, K., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First records ofCirripectes filamentosus (Perciformes: Blennidae) from the mainland ofKagoshima, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 219–222. (in Japanese)
466. Fujiwara, K. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). Records of two species ofclingfishes (Perciformes: Gobiesocidae), Lepadichthys lineatus and Pherallodus
indicus, from the Amami Islands, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43:
223–229. (in Japanese)
467. Fujiwara, K., M. Okamoto and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record ofVanderhorstia puncticeps (Gobiidae: Gobiinae) from off the Ryukyu Islands,
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 231–234. (in Japanese)
468. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of Thamnaconus
modestoides (Tetraodontiformes: Monacanthidae) from the Uji Islands,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 235–238. (inJapanese)469. Hata, H., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). First record of
Chelonodon patoca (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from Kyushu, southern
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 239–242. (in Japanese)
470. Fukui, Y. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). Reproductive behavior of
Arothron firmamentum (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from Gaja-jimaisland, Tokara Islands, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 243–247. (inJapanese)471. Koeda, K. and H. Motomura. 2017 (May). Annotated list of fish specimens
taken from fish stomach deposited at the Kagoshima University Museum, Japan.
Nature of Kagoshima, 43: 257–269. (in Japanese)
472. Hata, H., H. Iwatsubo and H. Motomura. 2017 (June). First records of the
Cocoa Snapper Paracaesio stonei (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from the Satsunan
Islands, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 36: 55–62.
473. Wilcox, C. L., H. Motomura, M. Matsunuma and B. W. Bowen. 2017 (June).
Phylogeographic analyses of four putative lionfish (Pterois) species indicate
taxonomic over splitting and hybrid origin for the invasive Pterois volitans.
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474. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (June). Record of Pristipomoides typus(Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from Kagoshima Bay, southern Japan. Nanki-seibutsu,
59 (1): 67–70. (in Japanese)
475. Pippard, H., G. Ralph, M. Harvey, K. Carpenter, J. Buchanan, M. Fancourt,
D. Greenfield, H. Harwell, H. Larson, A. Lawrence, C. Linardich, K. Matsuura, H.
Motomura, T. Munroe, R. Myers, C. Pollock, B. Russell, W. Smith-Vaniz, J.-C.
Vie, R.R. Thaman, J. Williams and I. Williams. 2017 (June). The conservation
status of marine biodiversity in the Pacific Islands of Oceania. International
Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Oceania
Regional Office, Suva, Fiji. 59 pp.
476. Motomura, H. (ed.). 2017 (June). Fishes, pp. 154–169. In 100 mysteries ofhighly poisonous and dangerous life. Gakken Plus, Tokyo. 208 pp. (in Japanese)
477. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (July). First record of Psenes pellucidus(Perciformes: Nomeidae) from Saikai City, Nagasaki Prefecture, southern Japan.
Transactions of the Nagasaki Biological Society, 80: 7–9. (in Japanese)
478. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2017 (July). First record of the engraulid fish
Encrasicholina macrocephala (Clupeiformes) from Somalia. Check List, 13 (4):47–51. Doi 10.15560/13.4.47
479. Lavoué, S., J. Bertrand, H.-Y. Wang, W.-J. Chen, H.-C. Ho, H. Motomura,
H. Hata, T. Sado and M. Miya. 2017 (July). Molecular systematics of the anchovy
genus Encrasicholina in the Northwest Pacific. PLoS One, 12 (7): e0181329,.doi
10.1371/journal.pone.0181329 (28 July 2017)
480. Matsunuma, M., Y. Kai and H. Motomura. 2017 (July). First record of thefalse scorpionfish Centrogenys vaigiensis (Perciformes: Centrogenyidae) fromthe western Indian Ocean. Cybium, 41 (3): 290–292.
481. Muto, N., U. B. Alama, R. Kakioka, R. P. Babaran and H. Motomura. 2017
(July). First record of Lutjanus madras (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from the Pacific
Ocean, with comments on its intraspecific morphological variation. Cybium, 41(3): 295–298.
482. Wibowo, K., M. Toda and H. Motomura. 2017 (Aug.). Validity of Abudefduf
caudobimaculatus Okada and Ikeda 1939 and synonymies of Abudefduf
vaigiensis (Quoy and Gaimard 1824) (Perciformes: Pomacentridae).
Ichthyological Research, doi 10.1007/s10228-017-0594-3 (3 Aug. 2017), 65: 78–
91 (14 Jan. 2018)
483. Kakioka, R., N. Muto, H. Takeshima, A. C. Gaje, R. S. Cruz, U. B. Alama, A.
M. T. Guzman, R. Ferdinand, M. Traifalger, R. P. Babaran, O. Muda, W. M.
Arshaad, S. Arnupapboon, K. Phuttharaksa, Q. V. Nguyen, T. T. Pham, H.
Motomura, F. Muto and S. Ishikawa. 2017 (Aug.). Cryptic genetic divergence in
Scolopsis taenioptera (Perciformes: Nemipteridae) in the western Pacific Ocean.
Ichthyological Research, doi 10.1007/s10228-017-0596-1 (7 Aug. 2017), 65: 92–
100 (14 Jan. 2018)44484. Matsunuma, M. and H. Motomura. 2017 (Aug.). Indian Ocean record of
Brachypterois curvispina Matsunuma, Sakurai & Motomura, 2013
(Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae) – a misidentification of B. serrulifer Fowler, 1938.
FishTaxa, 2 (3): 123–125.
485. Motomura, H., T. Yoshida and V. Vilasri. 2017 (Aug.). New species of theanthiadin genus Sacura (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the Andaman Sea.
Zootaxa, 4306 (2): 291–295. Doi 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.2.10
486. Johnson, J. W. and H. Motomura. 2017 (Sept.). Five new species ofParapercis (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae) from southeast Asia and northwest
Australia. Zootaxa, 4320 (1): 121–145. Doi 10.11646/zootaxa.4320.1.7
487. Wibowo, K. and H. Motomura. 2017 (Sept.). A new species of the
deepwater scorpionfish genus Phenacoscorpius (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae) fromthe Galápagos Islands. Zootaxa, 4323 (2): 261–268. Doi
10.11646/zootaxa.4323.2.9
488. Motomura, H. 2017 (Sept.). No. 1 Scorpaena pepo. Series Kagoshima,
discover unknown fishes!. Sakurajima no Umi, 21 (2): 6. (in Japanese)
489. Fricke, R., T. Kawai, T. Yato and H. Motomura. 2017 (Oct.). Peristedion
longicornutum, a new species of armored gurnard from the western Pacific
Ocean (Teleostei: Peristediidae). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 8:
90–102.
490. Motomura, H., H. Nishiyama and S. N. Chiba. 2017 (Oct.). Review of the
Chromis xanthura species group (Perciformes: Pomacentridae), with descriptionof a new species. Ichthyological Research, doi 10.1007/s10228-017-0601-8 (27Oct. 2017), 65 (2): 177–191 (17 Mar. 2018)491. Hata, H., H. Iwatsubo, M. Yamada, T. Maekawa and H. Motomura. 2017
(Oct.). First records of Sphyraena iburiensis (Perciformes: Sphyraenidae) fromthe Amami Islands and southern Kyushu, Japan. Biogeography, 19: 10–16.
492. Koeda, K., T. Yoshida and H. Motomura. 2017 (Oct.). First Japanese andnorthernmost distributional record of Pseudoplesiops immaculatus (Perciformes:
Pseudochromidae: Pseudoplesiopinae) from the Tokara Islands. Biogeography,
19: 55–60.
493. Fujiwara, K., U. B. Alama, M. Okamoto and H. Motomura. 2017 (Oct.). First
records of the acropomatid fish (Teleostei: Perciformes), Parascombrops
yamanouei, from Japan and the Philippines. Biogeography, 19: 85–92.
494. Iwatsubo, H. and H. Motomura (eds.). 2017 (Oct.). Field guide to fishes of
Kagoshima Bay in southern Kyushu, Japan. Kagoshima Museum of Aquatic
Biodiversity, Kagoshima and the Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima.
302 pp., 618 figs. (in Japanese)
495. Motomura, H. 2017 (Nov.). Fishes of Yoron Island, pp. 54–56. In Yoron
Board of Education (ed.) Yoron Town Magazine. Yoron Town, Yoron. (in45

Japanese)
496. Hata, H., T. Maekawa, M. Nakae and H. Motomura. 2017 (Nov.). First
records of Ariomma brevimanum (Perciformes: Ariommatidae) from
Amami-oshima island, Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Nature ofKagoshima, 44: 13–16. (in Japanese)
497. Hata, H., T. Maekawa, K. Kuriiwa, M. Nakae and H. Motomura. 2017 (Nov.).
First record of Ryukyupercis gushikeni (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae) from theSatsunan Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima,
44: 17–20. (in Japanese)
498. Hata, H., T. Maekawa, K. Kuriiwa, M. Nakae and H. Motomura. 2017 (Nov.).
First records of Nemipterus tambuloides (Perciformes: Nemipteridae) from theSatsunan Islands, Kagoshima, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 21–25. (inJapanese)499. Hata, H., T. Maekawa, M. Nakae and H. Motomura. 2017 (Nov.). Recordsof three species of carangids (Perciformes: Carangidae), Caranx tille,
Megalaspis cordyla, and Selaroides leptolepis, from Amami-oshima island,
Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima,
44: 27–35. (in Japanese)
500. Hata, H., H. Iwatsubo and H. Motomura. 2017 (Nov.). First records of
Pterothrissus gissu (Albuliformes: Pterothrissidae) from Amami-oshima island,
Amami Islands, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 37–40. (in Japanese)
501. Hata, H., T. Maekawa, M. Nakae and H. Motomura. 2017 (Nov.). First
specimen-based records of Thrysitoides marleyi (Perciformes: Gempylidae)
from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 41–45.
(in Japanese)
502. Hata, H., T. Maekawa, M. Nakae and H. Motomura. 2017 (Nov.). Record ofGrammatorcynus bilineatus (Perciformes: Scombridae) from Amami-oshimaisland, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 73–76. (inJapanese)503. Fujiwara, K., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2017 (Nov.). First Japanese recordof Acanthopagrus taiwanensis (Perciformes: Sparidae) from Kagoshima
Prefecture. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 64 (2): 107–112. (in Japanese, withEnglish abstract)504. Fujiwara, K., S. Tashiro, M. Takayama, H. Senou and H. Motomura. 2017
(Nov.). Records of the anthiine fish Plectranthias sheni from Japan and proposalof a new standard Japanese name. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 64 (2):
121–129. (in Japanese, with English abstract)505. Bandai, A., M. Matsunuma and H. Motomura. 2017 (Nov.). First records ofthe electric ray Tetronarce formosa (Torpediniformes: Torpedinidae) from Japan,
with a revised species’ diagnosis and comparisons with congeners. Japanese
Journal of Ichthyology, 64 (2): 157–170. (in Japanese, with English abstract)46506. Tashiro, S., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2017 (Nov.). Second
Japanese record of Plectranthias wheeleri (Perciformes: Serranidae) from
Suwanose-jima island, Tokara Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan.
Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 64 (2): 195–199. (in Japanese, with English
abstract)
507. Wibowo, K. and H. Motomura. 2017 (Nov.). First confirmed record of the
Samoan Pipefish Halicampus mataafae (Perciformes: Syngnathidae) fromJapan. Species Diversity, 22 (2): 219–223. Doi 10.12782/sd.22_219
508. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2017 (Nov.). Distributional range extension
and live coloration of the Indo-Pacific deepwater cardinalfish Ostorhinchus cheni(Perciformes: Apogonidae). Species Diversity, 22 (2): 225–230. Doi
10.12782/sd.22_225
509. Motomura, H. 2017 (Dec.). No. 2 Drepane punctata. Series Kagoshima,
discover unknown fishes!. Sakurajima no Umi, 21 (3): 8. (in Japanese)
510. Ho, H.-C., H. Motomura, H. Hata and W.-C. Jiang. 2017 (Dec.). Review ofthe fish genus Epinnula Poey (Perciformes: Gempylidae), with description of a
new species from the Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa, 4363 (3): 393–408. Doi
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511. Okamoto, M. and H. Motomura. 2017 (Dec.). An additional specimen of arare lanternbelly Acropoma lecorneti (Perciformes: Acropomatidae) from
Vanuatu, South Pacific Ocean. Cybium, 41 (4): 373–375.
512. Fukui, Y. and H. Motomura. 2017 (Dec.). New records of Oxycheilinus
samurai (Perciformes: Labridae) from Indonesia and New Caledonia. Cybium,
41 (4): 376–378.
513. Murase, A., R. Miki and H. Motomura. 2017 (Dec.). Southern limits of
distribution of the intertidal gobies Chaenogobius annularis and C. gulosus
support the existence of a biogeographic boundary in southern Japan (Teleostei,
Perciformes, Gobiidae). ZooKeys, 725: 79–95. Doi 10.3897/zookeys.725.19952
514. Motomura, H. 2018 (Jan.). Field survey by Kagoshima University fish team.
FY2017 Report of the Angkor Monument Maintenance Corporation, Siem Reap,
79–80. (in Japanese)
515. Motomura, H. 2018 (Jan.; dated as Dec. 2017). Prefatory note, p. 2. In
Kimura, Y., Y. Hibino, R. Miki, T. Minetoma and K. Koeda (eds.) Field guide tofishes of Kuchinoerabu-jima island in the Osumi Group, Kagoshima, southern
Japan. The Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima. 200 pp. (in Japanese)
516. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2018 (Feb.). Redescription of the Indo-West
Pacific cardinalfishes (Perciformes: Apogonidae) Rhabdamia spilota Allen &Kuiter 1994 and R. gracilis (Bleeker 1856). Zootaxa, 4377 (2): 178–190. Doi
10.11646/zootaxa.4377.2.2 (1 Feb. 2018)517. Tashiro, S. and H. Motomura. 2018 (Feb.). Redescriptions of two western
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Pacific triplefins (Perciformes: Tripterygiidae), Enneapterygius fuscoventer andE. howensis. Ichthyological Research, doi 10.1007/s10228-017-0612-5 (8 Feb.
2018), 65 (2): 252–264 (18 Mar. 2018)518. Tashiro, S., H. Senou and H. Motomura. 2018 (Feb.). Enneapterygius
velatus, a new deepwater triplefin (Perciformes: Tripterygiidae) from the Ryukyu
Islands, southern Japan. Ichthyological Research, doi
10.1007/s10228-018-0617-8 (8 Feb. 2018)519. Hata, H., J. Ohtomi and H. Motomura. 2018 (Feb.). First and northernmost
records of Lethrinus erythracanthus (Perciformes: Lethrinidae) from Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 95–99. (in Japanese)
520. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2018 (Feb.). Stolephorus continentalis, a new
anchovy from the northwestern South China Sea, and redescription ofStolephorus chinensis (Günther 1880) (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae).
Ichthyological Research, doi 10.1007/s10228-018-0621-z (Feb. 2018)521. Yoshida, T., Y. Kimura and H. Motomura. 2018 (Feb.). Northernmost recordof Neamia octospina from Kuchierabu-jima island, Osumi Islands, Kagoshima,
Japan. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 72: 236–241. (inJapanese, English abstract)522. Hata, H., S. Tashiro and H. Motomura. 2018 (Feb.). First record of
Lestrolepis luetkeni (Aulopiformes: Paralepididae) from the Ryukyu Islands,
Japan. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 72: 277–281. (inJapanese, English abstract)523. Fujiwara, K., M. Itou, K. Wibowo and H. Motomura. 2018 (Feb.). Record ofan albino Spinner Shark Carcharhinus brevipinna (Carcharhinidae) from
Kagoshima, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 151–155. (in Japanese)
524. Hata, H., M. Yamada and H. Motomura. 2018 (Feb.). Morphological andecological notes on Acipenser sinensis (Chondrostei: Acipenseriformes) in
Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 157–161. (inJapanese)
525. Morishita, S. and H. Motomura. 2018 (Feb.). First records of the Round
Scorpionfish, Neomerinthe erostris (Scorpaenidae), from Japan. Taxa,
Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 44: 58–63. (inJapanese, English abstract)526. Fujiwara, K., H. Tanoue, M. Mohori, T. Kamano, K. Hata, S. Okada, S.
Nagai and H. Motomura. 2018 (Mar.; dated as Jan.). Fishes of the Hibiki-nada
Sea and Mi-shima island, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Journal of National
Fisheries University, 66 (2): 47–80. (in Japanese, English abstract)527. Motomura, H. 2018 (Mar.). Ichthyofaunal survey in Okinoerabu Island,
Amami Islands. Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands,
Occasional Papers, 59: 93–94. (in Japanese)48528. Matsunuma, M., Y. Fukui and H. Motomura. 2018 (Mar.). Review of the
Ostichthys japonicus complex (Perciformes: Holocentridae: Myripristinae) in thenorthwestern Pacific Ocean, with description of a new species. IchthyologicalResearch, doi 10.1007/s10228-018-0625-8 (5 Mar. 2018)529. Yoshida, T., K. Kuriiwa and H. Motomura. 2018 (Mar.). A rare serranid fish,
Liopropoma pallidum (Perciformes), from the Volcano Islands (southern
Ogasawara Islands); third specimen from Japan. Japanese Journal of
Ichthyology, doi 10.11369/jji.17-038 (9 Mar. 2018) (in Japanese, English
abstract)
530. Hata, H., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2018 (Mar.). Records of Coryphaena
equiselis (Perciformes: Coryphaenidae) from west coast of Satsuma Peninsula,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 211–214. (inJapanese)
531. Iwatsubo, H., S. Harazaki and H. Motomura. 2018 (Mar.). An underwaterphotograph record of Chromis analis (Perciformes: Pomacentridae), from
Yaku-shima island, Osumi Islands, Kagoshima, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima,
44: 221–223. (in Japanese)
532. Hata, H., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2018 (Mar.). First records of Remora
albescens (Perciformes: Echeneidae) from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 249–252. (in Japanese)
533. Hata, H., T. Maekawa and H. Motomura. 2018 (Mar.). First record of
Randallichthys filamentosus (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from Amami-oshimaisland, Amami Islands, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 253–256. (inJapanese)
534. Bandai, A., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2018 (Mar.). First Northern
Hemisphere record of the Tailspot Goatfish Upeneus spottocaudalis(Perciformes: Mullidae) from Kagoshima, Japan. Japanese Journal of
Ichthyology, doi 10.11369/jji.17-056 (23 Mar. 2018) (in Japanese, English
abstract)
535. Matsuo, R. M. Matsunuma, H. Motomura and S. Kimura. 2018 (Mar.).
Records of Parapercis kentingensis (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae) from Japan.
Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, doi 10.11369/jji.17–036 (23 Mar. 2018) (inJapanese, English abstract)536. Hata, H., Kawama, K. and H. Motomura. 2018 (Mar.). First records of threefish species from the Uji Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Natureof Kagoshima, 44: 257–264. (in Japanese)
537. Koeda, K. and H. Motomura. 2018 (Mar.). Third specimen andnorthernmost records of the rare velvetfish Cocotropus possi from Taira-jimaisland, Tokara Islands, Japan, with a fresh color description. Japanese Journal of
Ichthyology, doi 10.11369/jji.18–004 (30 Mar. 2018) (in Japanese, English
abstract)49538. Hata, H., H. Iwatsubo and H. Motomura. 2018 (Mar.). First record of
Gracila albomarginata (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the Tokara Islands, Japan.
Biological Magazine Okinawa, 56: 33–38.
539. Nakae, M., H. Motomura, K. Hagiwara, H. Senou, K. Koeda, T. Yoshida, S.
Tashiro, B. Jeong, H. Hata, Y. Fukui, K. Fujiwara, T. Yamakawa, M. Aizawa, G.
Shinohara and K. Matsuura. 2018 (Mar.). An annotated checklist of fishes ofAmami-oshima Island, the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Memoirs of the National
Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (52): 205–361.
540. Koeda, K., H. Hata, M. Yamada and H. Motomura (eds.). 2018 (Mar.). Field
guide to fishes landed at Uchinoura Fishing Port, Kagoshima, Japan. The
Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima. 520 pp., 1059 figs. (in Japanese)
541. Motomura, H. (ed.). 2018 (Mar.). Fishes. Dictionary of life. Gakken Plus,
Tokyo. 681 pp. (in Japanese)
542. Kagoshima City Aquarium Foundation and H. Motomura (eds.). 2018
(Mar.). Fishes collected with set nets in Kagoshima and confirmed by Kagoshima
City Aquarium. Second edition. Kagoshima City Aquarium Foundation,
Kagoshima. 336 pp. (in Japanese)
543. Motomura, H. 2018 (Mar.). Scorpaenidae, pp. 210–213; Polynemidae, pp.
328–329. In Nakabo, T. (ed.) The natural history of the fishes of Japan.
Shogakukan, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
544. Motomura, H. 2018 (Mar.). No. 3 Upeneus ioui, No. 4 Upeneus guttatus.
Series Kagoshima, discover unknown fishes!. Sakurajima no Umi, 21 (4): 8. (inJapanese)
545. Motomura, H., K. Hagiwara, H. Senou and M. Nakae (eds.). 2018 (Apr.).
Identification guide to fishes of the Amami Islands, Japan. Kagoshima University
Museum, Kagoshima, Yokosuka City Museum, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefectural
Museum of Natural History, Odawara, and National Museum of Nature andScience, Tsukuba. 414 pp., 3290 figs. (in Japanese)
546. Motomura, H. (ed.). 2018 (Apr.). Gakken LIVE Pocket, fishes. Gakken Plus,
Tokyo. 222 pp. (in Japanese)
547. Matsunuma, M., V. P. Padate and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.).
Re-assessment of a recent Indian Ocean record of the endemic East Asian
species Dendrochirus bellus (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae). Acta Ichthyologica et
Piscatoria, 48 (1): 79–81. Doi 10.3750/AIEP/02332
548. Hata, H., R. Miki and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.). First record of Tentoriceps
cristatus (Perciformes: Trichiuridae) from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 303–306. (in Japanese)
549. Hata, H., M. Itou and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.). First record of Nealotus
tripes (Perciformes: Gempylidae) from Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan.
Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 307–310. (in Japanese)50550. Hata, H., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.). First record of
Pterycombus petersii (Perciformes: Bramidae) from Tanega-shima island,
Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 311–314. (inJapanese)551. Wada, H. and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.). Records of Naso lopezi(Perciformes: Acanthuridae) from Satsuma Peninsula and Tanega-shima island,
Kagoshima, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 315–319. (in Japanese)
552. Bandai, A., M. Itou, M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.). First
records of Upeneus quadrilineatus (Perciformes: Mullidae) from the mainland ofKagoshima and the Osumi Islands, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44:
321–325. (in Japanese)
553. Hata, H., M. Itou, K. Kaburagi and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.). First recordsof Lethrinus olivaceus (Perciformes: Lethrinidae) from the Kagoshima mainlandand Tanega-shima island, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 327–332.
(in Japanese)
554. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.). First reliable record of
Encrasicholina punctifer (Clupeiformes: Engrauliade) from Shibushi Bay, east
coast of the mainland of Kagoshima, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44:
333–340. (in Japanese)
555. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.). First record of Pristipomoides
multidens (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from Yakushima island, Osumi Islands,
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 341–345. (in Japanese)
556. Tashiro, S., M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.). First records ofOdontanthias unimaculatus (Perciformes: Serranidae) from Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 347–351. (in Japanese)
557. Nakamura, J. and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.). First record of Carangoides
orthogrammus (Perciformes: Carangidae) from southern Yatsushiro Sea,
Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 353–357. (inJapanese)558. Morishita, S., T. Kawai and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.). Sebastiscus
vibrantus, a new species of rockfish (Sebastidae) from Indonesia and Taiwan.
Ichthyological Research, doi 10.1007/s10228-018-0632-9 (24 Apr. 2018)559. Hata, H., K. Kaburagi and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.). First record of
Hyporhamphus dussumieri (Beloniformes: Hemiramphidae) from Tanegashimaisland, Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 359–362. (in Japanese)
560. Hata, H., H. Iwatsubo, M. Takayama and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.).
Records of two species of groupers (Perciformes: Serranidae), Epinephelus
fasciatomaculosus and E. quoyanus, from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Natureof Kagoshima, 44: 363–369. (in Japanese)
561. Hata, H., T. Maekawa and H. Motomura. 2018 (Apr.). Record of Alectis51

indica (Perciformes: Carangidae) from Amami-oshima, Kagoshima Prefecture,
Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 371–375. (in Japanese)
562. Hata, H., J. Ohtomi and H. Motomura. 2018 (May). First record ofGephyroberyx japonicus (Beryciformes: Trachichthyidae) from Kagoshima Bay,
southern Japan. Nature of Kagoshima, 44: 377–381. (in Japanese)
563. Yoshida, T. and H. Motomura. 2018 (May). First record of the Gillspot
Cardinalfish, Neamia notula (Apogonidae) from the Philippines. Philippine
Journal of Systematic Biology, 11 (2): 10–13. (3 May 2018)564. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2018 (May). First record of the anchovy
Stolephorus teguhi (Engraulidae) from the Philippines. Philippine Journal of
Systematic Biology, 11 (2): 20–24. (3 May 2018)565. Hata, H. and H. Motomura. 2018 (May). Records of Ariomma brevimanum(Perciformes: Ariommatidae) from Kashiwa-jima island and Muroto, Kochi
Prefecture, southern Japan. Bulletin of the Shikoku Institute of Natural History,
11: 10–15. (in Japanese)
566. Wibowo, K., K. Koeda, N. Muto and H. Motomura. 2018 (May). Abudefduf
nigrimargo, a new species of damselfish (Perciformes: Pomacentridae) from
Taiwan. Ichthyological Research, doi 10.1007/s10228-018-0634-7 (7 May 2018)567. Koeda, K., T. Fujii and H. Motomura. 2018 (May). A new species of gardeneel, Heteroconger fugax (Congridae: Heterocongrinae), from the northwestern
Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa, 4418 (3): 287–295. Doi 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.3.6
568. Fujiwara, K., M. Okamoto and H. Motomura. 2018 (May). Review of theclingfish genus Kopua (Gobiesocidae: Trachelochisminae) in Japan, withdescription of a new species. Ichthyological Research, doi
10.1007/s10228-018-0633-8 (22 May 2018)569. Fujiwara, K. and H. Motomura. 2018 (May). Revised diagnosis and first
Northern Hemisphere records of the rare clingfish Lepadichthys akiko(Gobiesocidae: Diademichthyinae). Species Diversity, 23 (1): 87–93. Doi
10.12782/specdiv.23.87 (25 May 2018)570. Matsunuma, M. and H. Motomura. 2018 (May). Redescription andgeographic variations of Pterois antennata and first record of Pterois
paucispinula from French Polynesia (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae). Species
Diversity, 23 (1): 95–114. Doi 10.12782/specdiv.23.95 (25 May 2018)571. Fukui, Y., T. Uchida and H. Motomura. 2018 (May). First specimen-based
record of Ammolabrus dicrus (Perciformes: Labridae) from Japanese waters,with notes on morphological ontogenetic changes and geographic variation.
Species Diversity, 23 (1): 115–120. Doi 10.12782/specdiv.23.115 (25 May 2018)572. Iwatsubo, H. and H. Motomura. 2018 (June). Chromis katoi, a new speciesof damselfish from the Izu Islands, Japan, with a key to species in the Chromis
notata species complex (Perciforms: Pomacentridae). Aqua, International52

Journal of Ichthyology, 24 (1): 27–34.
573. Hata, H., R. Miki, M. Wada and H. Motomura. 2018 (June). Record of
Lophotus capellei (Lampridiformes: Lophotidae) from the Shikoku Basin, east of
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578. Murase, A., R. Miki, M. Wada, M. Itou, H. Motomura and H. Senou. 2018
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