Biogeography, Vol. 12

August 20, 2010

International Journal of Biogeography,
Phylogeny, Taxonomy, Ecology, Biodiversity,
Evolution, and Conservation Biology


Kaori Wakabayashi, Miéko Komatsu & Yoichi Kogure
Occurrence of a tropical brittle star, Ophioplocus imbricatus (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) in the Kii Peninsula, implying the recent water temperature rises in Japanese waters. 1-8.

Shin Kubota, Ji Min Lee, Cheon Young & Shunshiro Ueno
Later appearance of giant jellyfish, Nemopilema nomurai (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae), in the inshore waters at the Jindo Island and the Jeju Island, Korea in November, 2009. 9-11.

Kazuya Nagasawa, Tetsuya Mukai, Kazushi Sota & Takeo Yamauchi
Heavy infection of groupers Epinephelus spp. with Lernaeenicus ramosus (Copepoda, Pennellidae) in the Sea of Japan. 13-15.

Kazuya Nagasawa, Hirotaka Katahira & Kouki Mizuno
New host and locality of the fish ectoparasite Argulus japonicus (Crustacea, Branchiura, Argulidae) in Japan, with a note on its heavy infection. 17-20.

Kazuya Nagasawa, Motohiro Kikuchi & Yorika Arakane
Transportation of the coastal marine leech Limnotrachelobdella okae (Hirudinida, Piscicolidae) to a river by adult sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka. 21-23.

Kazuya Nagasawa, Hirotaka Katahira & Ko Tomikawa
Salvelinema salmonicola (Nematoda, Cystidicolidae): heavy infection in lacustrine sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka from Northern Japan, with implication of the host's feeding habits. 25-28.

Masaharu Motokawa, Hongfeng Zhang, Junfeng Pei, Mitsuhiko Asakawa, Masakazu Asahara, Wei-Jan Wen, Chunguang Liu, Halik Mahmut, Xiaomin Wu & Buho Hoshino
Small mammals collected from Qinghai Province, China. 29-37.

Hideaki Kato, Keisuke Kishida, Tomohiro Sasanami, Norio Kansaku, Hideo Etoh & Masaru Toriyama
Detection of hybrid individuals between Mauremys japonica and Chinemys reevesii by RAPD. 39-42.

Junta Fujita, Yuzo Moriyama & Machiko Hatsumi
Genetic structure of Insei Islands and Japanese Mainland populations of Drosophila albomicans (Insecta, Diptera). 43-47.

Kôhei Kubota
Discovery of Carabus (Ohomopterus) dehaanii Chaudoir, 1848 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from the Ôsumi Peninsula, Kyushu, Japan: description of a new subspecies. 49-52.

Masayuki Ujiie, Ryôsuke Ishikawa & Kôhei Kubota
Geographical variation of Carabus (Ohomopterus) esakii Csiki, 1927 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in Japan. 53-64.

Kôji Sasakawa
A new species of the ground beetle subgenus Sadonebria Ledoux & Roux, 2005 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Nebria) from Honshu, Japan. 65-66.

Kôji Sasakawa
Additional notes on the phylogeny of East Asian species of the ground beetle Pristosia Motshulsky, 1865 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Sphodrini). 65-66.

Keita Koeda, Hideyuki Imai, Tetsuo Yoshino & Katsunori Tachihara
First and northernmost record of Pempheris oualensis (Pempherididae), from Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. 71-75.

Keita Koeda, Tetsuo Yoshino, Hideyuki Imai & Katsunori Tachihara
Description of new Japanese and northernmost records of a pemphrid fish, Pempheris vanicolensis, from Iriomote Island, Southern Ryukyu Archipelago. 77-82.

Kazunari Ogawa & Kei-ichi Nomura
A new coral-inhabiting barnacle, Cinophorus kushimotoensis n. sp. (Cirripedia, Pyrgomatidae), with complete larval stages. 83-104.

Toshihiko Morimune & Kazumi Hosoya
Geographical variations in the intestinal morphology of pale chub, Zacco platypus (Cyprinidae), in the Kinki District, Japan. 105-110.

Kouki Kume & Kazumi Hosoya
Distribution of southern and nourthern populations of medaka (Oryzias latipes) in the Yura River drainage of Kyoto, Japan. 111-117.

Hiroyuki Motomura, Shin-ichi Dewa, Kazuhiko Furuta & Hiroshi Senou
Description of Pseudanthias rubrolineatus (Serranidae: Anthiinae) collected from Take-shima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Southern Japan. 119-125.

Hiroyuki Motomura & Teguh Peristiwady
Scorpaena onaria (Scorpaenidae), previously considered to have an antitropical distribution, found in Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, Western Central Pacific Ocean. 127-131.

Kouki Mizuno & Kazuya Nagasawa
Occurence and habitats of the giant mottled eel Anguilla marmorata (Anguilliformes, Anguillidae) in rivers of Ehime Prefectgure, Japan. 133-139.

Takeo Yamauchi, Mayumi Obara & Sumitaka Yuasa
A new host record for Nycteribia pleuralis (Diptera: Nycteribiidae). 141-142.

Shin Kubota, Kanako Hyakutake & Hisashi Akiyama
First occurence of the hydromedusa Paralovenia bitentaculata (Hydrozoa: Leptomedusae) in Japan. 143-144.