1. Mitochondrial genome and a nuclear gene indicate a novel phylogenetic position of deep-sea tube-eye fish (Stylephoridae)

   • Masaki Miya
   • Nancy I. Holcroft
   • E.O. Wiley

   FULL PAPER 26 November 2007 Pages: 323 - 332

2. Review of spino-occipital and spinal nerves in Tetraodontiformes, with special reference to pectoral and pelvic fin muscle innervation

   • Masanori Nakae
   • Kunio Sasaki

   FULL PAPER 26 November 2007 Pages: 333 - 349

3. Revision of the East Asian genus Ditrema (Embiotocidae), with description of a new subspecies

   • Hiroshi Katafuchi
   • Tetsuji Nakabo

   FULL PAPER 26 November 2007 Pages: 350 - 366

4. Distribution of Japanese temperate bass, Lateolabrax japonicus, eggs and pelagic larvae in Ariake Bay

   • Manabu Hibino
   • Taro Ohta
   • Masaru Tanaka

   FULL PAPER 26 November 2007 Pages: 367 - 373

5. Grammonus yunokawai (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae), a new marine cavefish from the Ryukyu Islands

   • Jørgen G. Nielsen

   FULL PAPER 26 November 2007 Pages: 374 - 379

6. Comparative population structure of three snook species (Teleostei: Centropomidae) from the eastern central Pacific

   • Píndaro Díaz-Jaimes
   • Edson Sandoval-Castellanos
   • Manuel Uribe-Alcocer

   FULL PAPER 26 November 2007 Pages: 380 - 387

7. Some aspects of the biology of the goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni, collected from the Tokyo Submarine Canyon and adjacent waters, Japan

   • Kazunari Yano
   • Masaki Miya
   • Tetsuhisa Noichi

   FULL PAPER 26 November 2007 Pages: 388 - 398

8. A computer system for identifying Tanganyikan cichlids using meristic and descriptive data accumulated in the literature

   • Tetsumi Takahashi
   • Taisuke Ohtsuka
   • Keiichi Matsuura

   SHORT REPORT 26 November 2007 Pages: 399 - 403

9. Doederleinia gracilispinis (Fowler, 1943), a junior synonym of Doederleinia berycoides (Hilgendorf, 1879), with review of the genus

   • Yusuke Yamanoue
   • Keiichi Matsuura

   SHORT REPORT 26 November 2007 Pages: 404 - 411

10. Diel patterns in reproductive events of the blenniid fish Petroscirtes breviceps in the temperate waters of southern Japan

    • Jun-ya Shibata
    • Masanori Kohda

    SHORT REPORT 26 November 2007 Pages: 412 - 415

11. Genetic diversity of Salanx ariakensis (Salangidae) from Korea and Japan inferred from AFLP

    • Jin Koo Kim
    • Yoshiaki Kai
    • Tetsuji Nakabo

    SHORT REPORT 26 November 2007 Pages: 416 - 419

12. Evidence for use of the bill by blue marlin, Makaira nigricans, during feeding

    • Tamaki Shimose
    • Kotaro Yokawa
    • Katsunori Tachihara

    NEWS AND COMMENTS 26 November 2007 Pages: 420 - 422

13. Young Ichthyologist Award 2007 and Best Article Award 2007

    AWARDS 26 November 2007 Pages: 423 - 423