1. Spacing pattern and body size composition of the protandrous anemonefish Amphiprion frenatus inhabiting colonial host anemones

   • Miyako Kobayashi
   • Akihisa Hattori

   Full paper Pages: 1 - 6

2. Dolichopteryx rostrata, a new species of spookfish (Argentinoidea: Opisthoproctidae) from the eastern North Atlantic Ocean

   • Atsushi Fukui
   • Yasuyuki Kitagawa

   Full paper Pages: 7 - 12

3. Reproductive biology and morphology of eggs and larvae of Stiphodon percnopterygionus (Gobiidae: Sicydiinae) collected from Okinawa Island

   • Nozomi Yamasaki
   • Katsunori Tachihara

   Full paper Pages: 13 - 18

4. Competition between two congeneric stream gobies for habitat in southwestern Shikoku, Japan

   • Shin Sone
   • Mikio Inoue
   • Yasunobu Yanagisawa

   Full paper Pages: 19 - 23

5. Geographic and environmental variation in Bryconops sp. cf. melanurus (Ostariophysi: Characidae) from the Brazilian Pantanal

   • Brian Sidlauskas
   • Barry Chernoff
   • Antonio Machado-Allison

   Full paper Pages: 24 - 33

6. Developmental morphology of the cyprinid fish Inlecypris auropurpureus

   • Tetsuya Sado
   • Seishi Kimura

   Full paper Pages: 34 - 40

7. Lepturacanthus roelandti (Bleeker, 1860), a valid species of hairtail (Perciformes: Trichiuridae)

   • Anirban Chakraborty
   • Martien J.P. van Oijen
   • Yukio Iwatsuki

   Full paper Pages: 41 - 46

8. A new cottid species, Icelus sekii (Perciformes: Cottoidei), from Hokkaido, Japan

   • Osamu Tsuruoka
   • Hiroyuki Munehara
   • Mamoru Yabe

   Full paper Pages: 47 - 51

9. Molecular and morphological differences between two geographic populations of Salanx ariakensis (Salangidae) from Korea and Japan

   • Jin Koo Kim
   • Ryu Doiuchi
   • Tetsuji Nakabo

   Full paper Pages: 52 - 62

10. The relationship between ontogeny, morphology, and diet in the Chinese hook snout carp (Opsariichthys bidens)

    • Frank Johansson
    • Petra Rådman
    • Jens Andersson

    Full paper Pages: 63 - 69

11. Use of otoliths to determine age and growth of a tropical flatfish Cyclopsetta querna (Paralichthyidae) from the southeast coast of the Gulf of California, Mexico

    • Felipe Amezcua
    • Ivan Martínez-Tovar
    • Felipe Amezcua-Linares

    Short report Pages: 70 - 74

12. New primers for amplifying and sequencing the mitochondrial ND4/ND5 gene region of the Cypriniformes (Actinopterygii: Ostariophysi)

    • Masaki Miya
    • Kenji Saitoh
    • Richard L. Mayden

    Short report Pages: 75 - 81

13. Genetic evidence supporting the existence of two diverged groups in the goby Gymnogobius castaneus

    • Toshihiko Shinozaki
    • Machiko Hatsumi
    • Akira Goto

    Short report Pages: 82 - 86

14. Parentage analyses of freshwater goby Rhinogobius sp. OR using microsatellite DNA markers and egg developmental stages of eggs in the nest

    • Daisuke Takahashi
    • Kenichi Ohara

    Short report Pages: 87 - 92

15. Genetic differences among three species of the genus Trichiurus (Perciformes: Trichiuridae) based on mitochondrial DNA analysis

    • Anirban Chakraborty
    • Futoshi Aranishi
    • Yukio Iwatsuki

    Short report Pages: 93 - 96

16. A new silverside, Atherinomorus aetholepis sp. nov., from the West Pacific (Atheriniformes: Atherinidae)

    • Seishi Kimura
    • Yukio Iwatsuki
    • Tetsuo Yoshino

    Erratum Pages: 97 - 97