Biogeography Vol. 17

20 September 2015

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


Okada, Tomoyuki, Kouta Ishihara, Atsunobu Murase & Teruaki Hino
A latitudinal gradient in the biogeographic compositions of rock pool fish assemblages on the Pacific coast of central Japan: an examination of the influence of the Kuroshio Current. 1-11.

Fujioka, Yasuhiro, Akihisa Sakai & Atsuhiko Ide
Horizontal and vertical distribution of Cottus reinii (Pisces: Cottidae) in Lake Biwa, central Japan. 13-20.

Ayer, Cristopher G. & Hirotaka Katahira
Crepidostomum spp. (Trematoda: Allocreadiidae) from Sakhalin sticklebacks Pungitius tymensis (Gasterosteiformes: Gasterosteidae) in Eastern Hokkaido, Japan: a new host record of C. chaenogobii. 21-26.

Ogawa, Kazunari & Kanae Matsuzaki
First record of gall-forming copepods on hydrocorals from the Pacific coast of Japan, with descriptions of one new genus and two new species. 27-36.

Nitta, Masato & Kazuya Nagasawa
New records of an alien digenean Glypthelmins quieta (Plagiorchiidae) infecting the American bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus, in western Japan. 37-41.

Ito, Taiki, Kazuhiro Tanaka & Kazumi Hosoya
Geographical variations in morphological characters of the fluvial eight-berbel loach, Nagare-hotoke-dojo (Cobitidae: Nemacheilinae). 43-52.

Yokogawa, Kōji
A natural hybrid limpet between Cellana nigrolineata and Cellana grata grata (Gastropoda: Nacellidae) from Shikoku, Japan. 53-60.

Iwamoto, Kensuke, Muhamad Fadry Abdullah, Chih-Wei Chang, Tetsuo Yoshino & Hideyuki Imai
Genetic isolation of the mottled spinefoot Siganus fuscescens Ryukyu Archipelago population. 61-85.

Kubota, Shin
Eugymnanthea japonica (Hydrozoa, Eirenidae) spawns by illumination of red light. 87-89.

Saijo, Kiku & Seiki Yamane
Records of ants from the Chuuk State, Micronesia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). 91-93.

Nagasawa, Kazuya & Kunihiro Utsumi
A piscicolid leech Limnotrachelobdella okae (Hirudinida) infesting a Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica, in Japan. 95-97.

Nagasawa, Kazuya & Takanori Ishikawa
Argulus coregoni (Branchiura: Argulidae) parasitic on the torrent catfish Liobagrus reini in Japan. 99-102.

Nagasawa, Kazuya, Daisuke Uyeno & Minoru Toda
Sarcotaces sp. (Copepoda: Philichthyidae), a parasite of a blacktip grouper, Epinephelus fasciatus, from off the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan. 103-106.

Sasakawa, Kôji & Hirotarô Itô
Additional notes on the ground beetles Pterostichus takadateyamanus Sasakawa, 2009 and P. yahikosanus Sasakawa, 2009 (Coleoptera: Carabidae): Recent collection records and descriptions of the females. 107-108.

Hibino, Yusuke, Atsushi Tawa, Ukkrit Satapoomin & Seishi Kimura
Firat records of Gymnothorax reticularis and Gymnothorax mccoskeri from Thailand (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae). 109-114.

Nagasawa, Kazuya & Masato Nitta
A fish parasite, Isoparorchis eurytremum (Digenea: Isoparorchiidae), newly recorded in Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan. 115-117.

Kogure, Yoichi
Localities and morphological characteristics of two Luidia sea star species (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) found in Japanese waters. 119-124.

Hanzawa, Naoto, Ryo O. Gotoh, Mariko Kawamura & Shin Kubota
Rhopilema asamushi Uchida (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa, Rhizostomidae) newly occurred in Tanabe Bay, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. 125-127.

Kubota, Shin
Morphology of newly liberated medusae of Turritopsis spp. (Hydrozoa, Oceanidae) from Japan and abroad. 129-131.