Halichoeres bleekeri (steindachner & döderlein), a valid japanese species of labrid fish, distinct fromH. tenuispinis (günther) from china John E. Randall OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 231
Ontogeny of respiratory area of a marine teleost, porgy,pagrus major Shin OikawaMasashi HirataYasuo Itazawa OriginalPaper Pages: 233 - 244
Growth and morphological development of larval and juvenileepinephelus bruneus (perciformes: Serranidae) Yoshifumi SawadaKeitaro KatoHidemi Kumai OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 257
Atrosalarias hosokawai, a new species of blenny (perciformes: Blenniidae) from the western pacific Toshiyuki SuzukiHiroshi Senou OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 265
A new jawfish,stalix toyoshio, from kyushu, japan (perciformes: Opistognathidae) Gento Shinohara OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 270
Johnius (johnieops) philippinus, a new sciaenid from the philippines, with a synopsis of species included in the subgenusjohnieops Kunio Sasaki OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 279
Internal morphology and function of paired fins in the epaulette shark,hemiscyllium ocellatum Tomoaki GotoKiyonori NishidaKazuhiro Nakaya OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 287
Observations of mating behavior of the manta ray,manta birostris, at the ogasawara islands, japan Kazunari YanoFumihiko SatoTomoko Takahashi OriginalPaper Pages: 289 - 296
Pair territoriality in the longnose filefish,oxymonacanthus longirostris Tomoyuki KokitaAkinobu Nakazono OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 302
New records of the pacific sleeper shark,somniosus pacificus (chondrichthyes: Squalidae), from the southwest atlantic Juan M. Díaz de AstarloaDaniel E. FigueroaGustavo Chiaramonte OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 308
A note on the reproductive ecology of the catadromous fourspine sculpin,cottus kazika (scorpaeniformes: Cottidae) Naohiko TakeshitaNorio OnikuraSeirô Kimura OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 313
Comparison oflutjanus bengalensis from the western pacific with a related species,L. kasmira, and variations in both species (perciformes: Lutjanidae) Yukio IwatsukiTetsuo YoshinoKazuhiko Shimada OriginalPaper Pages: 314 - 317
Larva oftaeniopsetta radula (bothidae) from hawaii Atsushi FukuiHock-Chark Liew OriginalPaper Pages: 318 - 322
Taxonomic status of the western north atlantic eelpout,lycenchelys paxillus (goode & bean, 1879) (pisces, zoarcidae) Peter Rask Møller OriginalPaper Pages: 323 - 328