Biogeography, Vol. 14

September 20, 2012

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


Ito, Taiki, Yuichi Horii & Tomoyuki Yokoi
Late season biodiversity of aquatic fauna in paddies and irrigation ponds of Okayama Prefecture. 1-10.

Matsubara, Hajime, Toshio Kawai, Daisuke Iwata, Masaharu Shimizu, Hiroka Yoshikawa, Yuki Kubara & Atsushi Suzuki
The Kaluga sturgeon (Huso dauricus) from the coast of southernmost Okhotsk Sea, Hokkaido, Japan. 11-17.

Sakai, Harumi, Toshihiro Hatama & Akihisa Iwata
A rare freshwater goby Odontobutis hikimius collected from the Nishiki River flowing down the southern slope of the drainage divide opposite to the Takastu River, the type locality. 19-24.

Soliman, Taha, Francisco A. Solís-Marín & Yuji Yamazaki
Redescription of the ossicles of the deep-sea cucumber Bathyplotes tizardi (Théel, 1882) from the East China Sea, Nagasaki, Japan. 25-29.

Motomura, Hiroyuki & Teguh Peristiwady
First equatorial records of Neosebastes entaxis and N. longirostris (Scorpaeniformes: Neosebastidae) from northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. 31-36.

Takeuchi, Yoshinori, Koji Iizuka, Hiroyuki Koishi, Takuzo Yamada & Hidehiro Hoshiba
Chromosomes of two species of East Asian fishflies in the genus Neochauliodes (Megaloptera: Corydalidae: Chauliodinae). 37-40.

Harada, Yutaka
Trap-nesting of three arboreal ant species in a suburban park in southwestern Japan. 41-50.

Okazaki, Daisuke, Kouki Kanou, Toshihiro Yokoo & Hiroshi Kohno
Feeding ecology of the tidepool-dwelling goby Pseudogobius masago on an estuarine mudflat. 51-56.

Kurita, Yoshihisa & Ryutei Inui
Identification of sea bass species (Pisces, Percichthyidae) by PCR-RFLP analysis and differences in habitat use of the larvae and juveniles in the surf zones of sandy beaches in northwestern Kyushu Island. 57-63.

Abe, Takuya, Seiki Yamane & Keiichi Onoyama
Ants collected on the Krakatau Islands 100 years after the great eruptions. 65-75.

Okamoto, Makoto, Hiroyuki Motomura, Koichi Hoshino, Takashi Yanagimoto & Takeshi Hayashibara
New records of the noline scorpionfish, Phenacoscorpius megalops (Actinopterygii: Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) from the Emperor Seamounts, central North Pacific. 77-81.

Kubota, Shin, Yayoi Hirano, Shinichiro Ikeguchi, Ryo Minemizu & Minoru Kitamura
Wide geographical distibution of Atorella vanhoeffeni (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa, Coronatae) in Japan. 83-86.

Kubota, Shin
The life cycle of a bivalve-inhabiting hydorozoan, Eutima sapinhoa (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), from Florida, USA. 87-91.

Maneepitaksanti, Worawit & Kazuya Nagasawa
Actinocleidus fergusoni (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae), a gill parasite of bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), new to Japan. 93-97.

Nagasawa, Kazuya & Masaharu Tanaka
Limnotorachelobdella sinensis (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) parasitic on Japanese crucian carp (Carassius cuvieri) in game-fishing ponds in central Japan. 99-104.

Naomi, Shun-Ichiro & Ulrich Irmler
First record of the genus Allotrochus Fagel, 1955 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae) from the oriental region, with description of the new species A. takahashii from Ishigaki Is., Nansei Islands, Japan. 105-110.

Maneepitaksanti, Worawit & Kazuya Nagasawa
Monogeneans of Cichlidogyrus Paperna, 1960 (Dactylogyridae), gill parasites on tilapias, from Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. 111-119.

Maneepitaksanti, Worawit & Kazuya Nagasawa
First record of the fish parasite Transversotrema patialense (Trematoda: Digenea: Transversotrematidae) from Japan. 121-125.

Yoshino, Tomoo, Tokuma Yanai, Makoto Asano & Mitsuhiko Asakawa
First record of Porrocaecum depressum (Nematoda: Ascaridoidea), Craspedorrhynchus ap. and Degeeriella sp. (Insecta: Psocodea) obtained from a Hodgson's hawk eagle, Spizaetus nipalensis, in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. 127-132.

Kogura, Yoichi, Hisanori Kohtsuka & Setuo Kiyomoto
First record of the ophidiasterid sea star, Ophidiaster multispinus (Echinodermata, Asteroidea), from Japan, with reference to the wide intraspecific variations in external features. 133-138.

Sasakawa, Kôji
Larval morphology of the second instar Harpalus capito Morawitz, 1862 (Coleoptera, Carabidae). 139-142.

Nagasawa, Kazuya, Nobuhiko Shimadzu & Yuji Ikeda
Four new host records for the fish leech Zeylanicobdella arugamensis (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae), with an updated host list (1963-2012). 143-146.

Nagasawa, Kazuya & Hiroshi Senou
Third record of Dinemoleus indeprensus (Copepoda: Pandaridae) from the megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios. 147-149.

Nagasawa, Kazuya & Daisuke Uyeno
Geographical distribution affected by the Kuroshio of the fish parasite Cymothoa pulchra (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), in Japanese waters. 151-153.