Biogeography, Vol. 13

September 20, 2011

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


Takehiko Hiwatari, Yumi Shinotsuka, Hiroshi Morino & Kunio Kohata
Phylogenic relationship among families and genera of talitroidean amphipods (Crustacea) deduced from 28S rRNA gene sequences. 1-8.

Shin Kubota & Cinzia Gravili
Rare distribution of green fluorescent protein (GFP) in hydroids from Porto Cesareo, Lecce, Italy, with reference to biological meaning of this rarity. 9-11.

Kôji Sasakawa & Wataru Toki
Notes on the ground beetle subgenus Sadonebria Ledoux & Roux, 2005 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Genus Nebria) of southwest Japan. 13-17.

Junji Okuno & Yoshihisa Fujita
Record of a pontoniine shrimp, Cuapetes lacertae (Bruce, 1992) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with notes on its branchial formula and intraspecific morphological variation. 19-23.

Makoto Okamoto, Koichi Hoshino & Takashi Jintoku
First record of Amarsipus carlsbergi (Perciformes: Stromateoidei: Amarsipidae) from Japan and northernmost range extension. 25-29.

Sadaharu Morinaka, Erniwati, Ida K. Ginarsa & Tadashi Miyata
Co-occuring Delias butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) at Arfak Mts. in the western part of New Guinea Island. 31-34.

Ryutei Inui, Yusuke Shinada, Takeshi Ohata, Takashi Ihara, Haruhiko Oura & Norio Onikura
Diffeerences in the spawning habitats of 2 Acentrogobius species (Teleostei: Gobiidae) in Kyushu, Japan. 35-39.

Kazuya Nagasawa, Danny Tang & Tomoyasu Tamego
Biacanthus pleuronichthydis (Copepoda: Taeniacanthidae) from a new fish host Paralichthys olivaceus (Pleuronectiformes: Paralichthyidae) in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. 41-43.

Ken Maeda, Toshifumi Saeki & Katsunori Tachihara
New record of a freshwater teraponid fish, Mesopristes cancellatus (Teleostei: Terapontidae) from Okinawa Island in the Ryukyu Archipelago. 45-50.

Kazuya Nagasawa, Hiroyuki Doi & Fumihiko Yokoyama
Further records of Lernaeenicus ramosus (Copepoda: Pennellidae) from groupers (Epinephelus spp.) in Japanese waters. 51-53.

Manabu Onuma, Tomoo Yoshino, Ai Mizuo, Masayoshi Kakogawa & Mitsuhiko Asakawa
First record of Porrocaecum semiteres (Zeder, 1800) Baylis, 1920 (Nematoda: Ascaridoidea) from a superb starling, Lamprotornis superbus Ruppell, 1845 with an overview of the genus Porrocaecum recorded from Japanese birds. 55-59.

Yuta Yagi, Tomoaki Iseki, Toshihiro Yamamoto & Tetsuo Fujii
Fish larvae and juveniles occuring in open surf zones of the northern coast of the Japan Sea (Larval ichthyofauna in surf zones of the northern Japan Sea). 61-67.

Makoto Okamoto, Jørgen G. Nielsen & Hiroyuki Motomura
First record of the cusk-eel, Neobythites australiensis Nielsen (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae), from the Northern Hemisphere. 69-71.

Hiroaki Takeuchi, Tadashi Kitano & Kazumi Hosoya
Rediscovery of the maned goby, Oxyurichthys microlepis (Teleostei, Gobiidae) in Japan. 73-77.

Seigo Kawase, Kazumi Hosoya & Yoshikazu Kubo
First record of Eleginus gracilis (Tilesius, 1810) (Teleostei: Gabidae) from the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. 79-82.

Yoichi Kogure, Jun Hashimoto & Nobuhiro Yamawaki
A large goniasterid sea star, Astrothauma euphylacteum (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) discovered at the northeastern edge of the East China Sea: a new record in Japanese waters. 83-86.

Shin Kubota & Yukimitsu Imahara
Northernmost geographical distribution of Velella velella (Hydrozoa: Porpitidae) in the middle of the North Pacific. 87-88.

Tadashi Nakazato, Terumi Inagaki & Hidehiro Hoshiba
Thermal regulating effect of miniature paddy field as bio-air-conditioner. 89-99.

Shin Kubota
Repeating rejuvenation in Turritopsis, an immortal hydrozoan (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). 101-103.

Masato Hirose, Ryuma Fukiage & Hiroshi Kajihara
First record of Phoronis psammophila Cori, 1889 (Phoronida) from Japan. 105-110.

Kazuya Nagasawa & Masaharu Tanaka
Common carp (Cyprinus carpio carpio) as a host for the fish leech Limnotrachelobdella sinensis (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) in Japan. 111-113.

Kôji Sasakawa & Motomi Itô
First report of parasitism of the ground beetle tribe Pterostichini (Coleoptera, Carabidae) by the parasitic fly family Tachinidae (Diptera) in Japan. 115-118.