1. A new loach, Cobitis shikokuensis (Teleostei: Cobitidae), from Shikoku Island, Japan

   • Yuzuru Suzawa

   Full paper 25 November 2006 Pages: 315 - 322

2. Mitochondrial phylogeny reveals the artificial introduction of the pale chub Zacco platypus (Cyprinidae) in Taiwan

   • Gwo-Chin Ma
   • Katsutoshi Watanabe
   • Hon-Tsen Yu

   Full paper 25 November 2006 Pages: 323 - 329

3. Juvenile morphology and occurrence patterns of three Butis species (Gobioidei: Eleotridae) in a mangrove estuary, southern Thailand

   • Toshihiro Yokoo
   • Kouki Kanou
   • Hisashi Kurokura

   Full paper 25 November 2006 Pages: 330 - 336

4. Taxonomic reviews of two Indo-Pacific sea chubs, Kyphosus cinerascens (Forsskål, 1775) and Kyphosus sydneyanus (Günther, 1886)

   • Keiichi Sakai
   • Tetsuji Nakabo

   Full paper 25 November 2006 Pages: 337 - 356

5. Population structure of the sailfin sandfish, Arctoscopus japonicus (Trichodontidae), in the Sea of Japan

   • Shigeru M. Shirai
   • Ryoji Kuranaga
   • Masahito Higuchi

   Full paper 25 November 2006 Pages: 357 - 368

6. Redescription of Paraliparis holomelas Gilbert, 1896 (Teleostei: Liparidae), with a description of early life history stages

   • Morgan S. Busby
   • Rachael L. Cartwright

   Full paper 25 November 2006 Pages: 369 - 378

7. The Saurida undosquamis group (Aulopiformes: Synodontidae), with description of a new species from southern Japan

   • Takehiko Inoue
   • Tetsuji Nakabo

   Full paper 25 November 2006 Pages: 379 - 397

8. Use of digitally modified videos to examine female mate preference for orange spot coloration of males in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata

   • Aya Sato
   • Kenji Karino

   Full paper 25 November 2006 Pages: 398 - 405

9. A new sparid, Acanthopagrus akazakii, from New Caledonia with notes on nominal species of Acanthopagrus

   • Yukio Iwatsuki
   • Seishi Kimura
   • Tetsuo Yoshino

   Full paper 25 November 2006 Pages: 406 - 414

10. Reproductive behavior of largemouth triplefin Ucla xenogrammus (Tripterygiidae) on reefs of Kuchierabu-jima Island, southern Japan

    • Osamu Fujita
    • Yoichi Sakai
    • Kenji Gushima

    Short Report 25 November 2006 Pages: 415 - 418

11. Feeding ecology of two planktonic sculpins, Comephorus baicalensis and Comephorus dybowskii (Comephoridae), in Lake Baikal

    • Hitoshi Miyasaka
    • Yelena V. Dzyuba
    • Eitaro Wada

    Short Report 25 November 2006 Pages: 419 - 422

12. Eggs and late-stage embryos of Allocareproctus unangas (family Liparidae) from the Aleutian Islands

    • Morgan S. Busby
    • James W. Orr
    • Deborah M. Blood

    Short Report 25 November 2006 Pages: 423 - 426

13. Gonadal morphology in the self-fertilizing mangrove killifish, Kryptolebias marmoratus

    • Yoshitaka Sakakura
    • Kiyoshi Soyano
    • Atsushi Hagiwara

    Short Report 25 November 2006 Pages: 427 - 430

14. Deterioration of cichlid habitat by increased sedimentation in the rocky littoral zone of Lake Malawi

    • Bosco Rusuwa
    • Atsushi Maruyama
    • Masahide Yuma

    Short Report 25 November 2006 Pages: 431 - 434

15. Fixing the confused term “pseudomesial bar” and homologies of pleuronectiform cranial elements, with proposals of new terms

    • Koichi Hoshino

    News and Comments 25 November 2006 Pages: 435 - 440