The 2022 (56th) Annual Meeting of the Ichthyological Society of Japan (ISJ) will be held in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, from 16 to 19 September 2022. A symposium entitled “What genomics research can tell us about the diversity among fish: integrative natural history research and future perspective” will be held during the meeting. At present, details of the meeting venue, schedule and offline/online options are still unclear due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Information regarding registration and mixer fees and other details will be provided on the ISJ official website (https://www.fish-isj.jp/index-e.html). For further information, please contact General Affairs Secretary of ISJ, Nozomu Muto (Tokai University, e-mail: nzmutou@tsc.u-tokai.ac.jp).

Papers published in Japanese Journal of Ichthyology

The following papers were published in Japanese Journal of Ichthyology Volume 69, Number 1 on 25 April 2022, and English abstracts are available on the ISJ website (http://www.fish-isj.jp/english/journal.html).

Volume 69, Number 1

Original Papers


Ceratobregma helenae (Perciformes: Tripterygiidae) from Kume-jima Island, Okinawa Islands, Japan: northernmost record of the species and distribution in Japanese waters

Yuna Dewa, Shunji Terai and Hiroyuki Motomura


Genetic structure of the Japanese torrent catfish Liobagrus reinii (Amblycipitidae) in the Miya River and neighboring drainages, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Ayumu Ikoma, Tatsuya Toda, Tesshin Nagasaki and Kouichi Kawamura


First northern hemisphere record of Cirrhitichthys guichenoti (Perciformes: Cirrhitidae) from Izu-oshima Island, Izu Islands, Japan with notes on the inhabitation in Japan

Hidetoshi Wada, Senou Hiroshi and Hoshino Osamu


First record of Cyttopsis cypho (Zeiformes: Parazenidae) from Japan and morphological comparisons with Cyttopsis rosea

Kaito Mizumachi, Tohru Nakayama, Akinori Teramura and Hiromitsu Endo


First record of the epigonid fish Epigonus elongatus off the coast of Okinawa Island, Japan

Makoto Okamoto and Kei Miyamoto

Notes


Spawning environments and seasonal change in the appearance of the fluvial catfish, Silurus tomodai

Yoshiharu Sasaki and Naoto Sawada


Records and genetic characteristics of the bitterling Tanakia lanceolata established in the Naruse River system, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Gen Ito, Kaoru Hata, Jyun-ichi Kitamura and Yasunori Koya


A management proposal for red-list species existing as native and non-native species in different areas of the same administrative region: a case study of masu salmon in the Chitose River, Hokkaido

Koh Hasegawa and Sho Fukui


Food habits of young-of-the-year smallmouth bass in the lower Kizu River

Sho Kubo, Taichi Fukuoka, Masato Ota and Masahide Yuma


Present status of the Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus in Lake Biwa and the outflowing Seta River

Daisuke Ishizaki, Takahiro Usuki, Jin Saegusa, Masashi Uegaki, Takashi Taguchi, Morihito Nemoto, Akihisa Sakai and Takeshi Kikko


Records of seven mugilid species from the Daito (Borodino) Islands, southern Japan

Ifue Fukuchi and Katsunori Tachihara


A specimen of Lined Butterflyfish (Teleostei: Perciformes; Chaetodontidae) collected in 1932 from Fukushima, northern Japan, the northernmost record of the species

Keita Koeda


Masu salmon redds constructed in a straight-line river channel: a case study in the Akka River, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Takuya Kawashima, Nobukazu Ohno, Miwa Yatsuya, Kei Sasaki and Koh Hasegawa