1. Osteological development of the feeding apparatus in early stage larvae of the seabass,Lates calcarifer

   • Hiroshi Kohno
   • Riza Ordonio-Aguilar
   • Yasuhiko Taki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 9

2. Pennahia ovata, a new sciaenid from the Bay of Bengal

   • Kunio Sasaki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 16

3. Osteology and relationships ofPseudotrichonotus altivelis (Teleostei: Aulopiformes: Pseudotrichonotidae)

   • G. David Johnson
   • Carole C. Baldwin
   • Yoshiaki Tominaga

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 45

4. Juvenile development of a flathead,Suggrundus meerdervoortii (Scorpaeniformes: Platycephalidae)

   • Hisashi Imamura
   • Mamoru Yabe
   • Kunio Amaoka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 53

5. Group foraging by the herbivorous cichlid fish,Petrochromis fasciolatus, in Lake Tanganyika

   • Masanori Kohda
   • Yasuhiro Takemon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 63

6. Genetic variations ofCottus nozawae populations from five tributaries of the Shiribetsu River of southern Hokkaido, Japan

   • Naohiko Okumura
   • Yutaka Hasebe
   • Akira Goto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 71

7. Non-copulatory spawning and female participation during early egg care in a marine sculpinHemilepidotus gilberti

   • Youichi Hayakawa
   • Hiroyuki Munehara

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 78

8. A new gobiid fish,Acanthogobius insularis, from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

   • Koichi Shibukawa
   • Yasuhiko Taki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 85

9. First record of the platytroctid fish,Mentodus facilis (Salmoniformes: Alepocephaloidea) from Japanese waters

   • Yuri I. Sazonov
   • Masaki Miya

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 89

10. First finding of the deep-sea eelpout,Taranetzella lyoderma, from Japan (Zoarcidae, Lycodinae)

    • Yoshihiko Machida
    • Suguru Ohta

    OriginalPaper Pages: 90 - 92

11. First records of the zeiform fish,Macrurocyttus acanthopodus Fowler, 1933, from the Coral Sea

    • Christian O. Nyako
    • Kunio Amaoka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 96

12. Rogadius serratus (Cuvier, 1829), a senior synonym ofR. polijodon (Bleeker, 1853) (Scorpaeniformes: Platycephalidae)

    • Hisashi Imamura
    • Kunio Amaoka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 100

13. Redescription ofAmblyeleotris fontanesii (Gobiidae: Perciformes) with the first record from Japan

    • Akihisa Iwata
    • Toshiyuki Suzuki
    • Tetsuo Yoshino

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 109

14. Announcements

    Announcements and Editorial Note Pages: 111 - 111

15. Editorial note

    Announcements and Editorial Note Pages: 111 - 111