1) Annandale, N. and T. Kawamura, 1916. The Sponges of lake Biwa. Journ. Coll. Sci. Imperial University, Tokyo, 39:1-27.

2) Davie, P. J. F. and P. K. L. Ng, 2007. A new genus for cave-dwelling crabs previously assigned to Sesarmoides (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae). Raff. Bull. Zool., Supplement 16: 227–231.

3) 藤田喜久，2007. 宮古の湧水に生息する十脚甲殻類. 宮古島市総合博物館紀要，11:89-110.

4) Gelder, S. R. and A. Ohtaka, 2000. Description of a new species and a redescription of Cirrodrilus amorensis (Yamaguchi, 1934) with a detailed distribution of the branchiobdellidans (Annelida: Clitellata) in northern Honshu, Japan. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 113: 633-645.

5) Gelder, S. R. and A. Ohtaka, 2002. A review of the orietnal branchiobdellidans (Annelida: Clitellata) with reference to the rediscovered slide collection of Prof. Hideji Yamaguchi. Species Diversity, 7: 333-344.

6) Hatai, S., 1930. On Drawida hattamimizu sp. nov. Sci. Rep. Tohoku Univ., 5: 485-508.

7) Haupt, J., 1979. Lebensweise und Sexualverhalten der mesothelen Spinne Heptathela nishihirai n.sp. (Araneae, Liphistiidae). Zool. Anz., 202: 348-374.

8) Haupt, J., 1983. Vergleichende Morphologie der Genitalorgane und Philogenie der liohisiomorphen Webspinnen (Araneae: Mesothelae), I, Revision cer bisher bekannten Arten. Z. Zool. Syst. Evolut. –Frsch., 21: 275-293.

9) 林健一，2007. 日本産エビ類の分類と生態Ⅱ コエビ下目（1）. 生物研究社, 東京. xiv+292 pp.

10) Ishikawa, T., T. Narita and J. Urabe, 2004. Long-term changes in the abundance of Jesogammarus annandalei (Tattersall) in Lake Biwa. Limnol. Oceanogr., 49(5): 1840-1847.

11) 笠井英美・成瀬貫，2003. サワガニ科. 西田睦・鹿谷法一・諸喜田茂充（編著），琉球列島の陸水生物，pp. 282-288. 東海大出版会，東京.

12) Kawakatsu, M., R. Sluys, O. A. Timoshkin, T. V. Naumova, M. Nishino and M. Takai, 2001. Redescription of Japanese Bdelloephala annandalei from Lake Biwa-ko with comparative redescription of the Far Eastern and Kamchatkan Bdelloephala species (Tricladida, Paludicola). Belg. J. Zool., 131 (Suppl. 1): 205-211.

13) 小林哲, 2005. 小笠原諸島に巨大モクズガニをもとめて. Cancer, 14: 17-22.

14) Komai, T. and Y. Fujita, 2005. A new stygiobiont species of Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from an anchialine cave on Miyako Island, Ryukyu Islands. Zootaxa, 1021: 13-27.

15) Komai, T., I. Yamasaki, S. Kobayashi, T. Yamamoto and S. Watanabe, 2006. Eriocheir ogasawaraensis Komai, a new species of mitten crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Varunidae) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, with notes on the systematics of Eriocheir De Haan, 1835. Zootaxa, 1168, 1-20.

16) Naruse, T., 2005. Species of Moguaí Tan and Ng, 1999 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Camptandriidae) from brackish waters in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa, 1044: 57–64.

17) Naruse, T., H. Nakai and H. Tamura, 2005. A new record of cavernicolous crab Sesarmoides boholano Ng, 2002 (Brachyura, Sesarmidae) from Ishigaki Island, Southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Biogeography, 7: 79–84.

18) Naruse, T., S. Shokita and T. Kawahara, 2005. Neorhynchoplax yaeyamaensis, a new false spider crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) from the Yaeyama Group, the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Zootaxa, 877: 1–7.

19) Naruse, T., S. Shokita and Y. Cai, 2006. Neocaridina iriomotensis, a new species of land-locked freshwater shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae) from Iriomote Island, southern Ryukyus, Japan. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 119:25–31.

20) Naruse, T., S. Shokita and P. K. L. Ng, 2006. A revision of the Geothelphus levicervix species group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae), with descriptions of three new species. J. Nat. Hist., 40: 759–781.

21) Naruse, T., S. Shokita and J.-Y. Shy, 2004. A new species of the freshwater crab, previously assigned to Geothelphus miyazakii (Miyake & Chiu, 1965) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Potamidae), from Yaeyama Group, Southern Ryukyus,