1. Halichoeres bleekeri (steindachner & döderlein), a valid japanese species of labrid fish, distinct fromH. tenuispinis (günther) from china

   • John E. Randall

   OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 231

2. Ontogeny of respiratory area of a marine teleost, porgy,pagrus major

   • Shin Oikawa
   • Masashi Hirata
   • Yasuo Itazawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 233 - 244

3. Growth and morphological development of larval and juvenileepinephelus bruneus (perciformes: Serranidae)

   • Yoshifumi Sawada
   • Keitaro Kato
   • Hidemi Kumai

   OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 257

4. Atrosalarias hosokawai, a new species of blenny (perciformes: Blenniidae) from the western pacific

   • Toshiyuki Suzuki
   • Hiroshi Senou

   OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 265

5. A new jawfish,stalix toyoshio, from kyushu, japan (perciformes: Opistognathidae)

   • Gento Shinohara

   OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 270

6. Johnius (johnieops) philippinus, a new sciaenid from the philippines, with a synopsis of species included in the subgenusjohnieops

   • Kunio Sasaki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 279

7. Internal morphology and function of paired fins in the epaulette shark,hemiscyllium ocellatum

   • Tomoaki Goto
   • Kiyonori Nishida
   • Kazuhiro Nakaya

   OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 287

8. Observations of mating behavior of the manta ray,manta birostris, at the ogasawara islands, japan

   • Kazunari Yano
   • Fumihiko Sato
   • Tomoko Takahashi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 289 - 296

9. Pair territoriality in the longnose filefish,oxymonacanthus longirostris

   • Tomoyuki Kokita
   • Akinobu Nakazono

   OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 302

10. New records of the pacific sleeper shark,somniosus pacificus (chondrichthyes: Squalidae), from the southwest atlantic

    • Juan M. Díaz de Astarloa
    • Daniel E. Figueroa
    • Gustavo Chiaramonte

    OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 308

11. A note on the reproductive ecology of the catadromous fourspine sculpin,cottus kazika (scorpaeniformes: Cottidae)

    • Naohiko Takeshita
    • Norio Onikura
    • Seirô Kimura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 313

12. Comparison oflutjanus bengalensis from the western pacific with a related species,L. kasmira, and variations in both species (perciformes: Lutjanidae)

    • Yukio Iwatsuki
    • Tetsuo Yoshino
    • Kazuhiko Shimada

    OriginalPaper Pages: 314 - 317

13. Larva oftaeniopsetta radula (bothidae) from hawaii

    • Atsushi Fukui
    • Hock-Chark Liew

    OriginalPaper Pages: 318 - 322

14. Taxonomic status of the western north atlantic eelpout,lycenchelys paxillus (goode & bean, 1879) (pisces, zoarcidae)

    • Peter Rask Møller

    OriginalPaper Pages: 323 - 328

15. Erratum

    • Takegaki T.
    • A. Nakazono

    Erratum Pages: 329 - 329

16. Editorial notes & announcements

    Announcement Pages: 329 - 330