1. Abiotic and biotic factors influence the habitat use of four species of Gymnogobius (Gobiidae) in riverine estuaries in the Seto Inland Sea

   • Ryutei Inui
   • Akihiko Koyama
   • Yoshihisa Akamatsu

   Full Paper 18 April 2017 Pages: 1 - 11

   

2. A new species of the grenadier genus Coelorinchus (Actinopterygii: Gadiformes: Macrouridae) from the Timor Sea, Eastern Indian Ocean

   • Naohide Nakayama
   • Hiromitsu Endo

   Full Paper 22 April 2017 Pages: 12 - 20

   

3. A new species of Pempheris (Perciformes: Pempheridae) endemic to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan

   • Keita Koeda
   • Hiroyuki Motomura

   Full Paper 24 May 2017 Pages: 21 - 28

   

4. Morphological evidence supporting the monophyly of the family Polynemidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) and its sister relationship with Sciaenidae

   • Shihua Kang
   • Hisashi Imamura
   • Toshio Kawai

   Full Paper 29 June 2017 Pages: 29 - 41

   

5. Evidence of putative sensory receptors from snout and tongue in an upstream amphihaline migratory fish hilsa Tenualosa ilisha

   • Chandan Malick
   • Subhendu Kumar Chatterjee
   • Surjya Kumar Saikia

   Full Paper 04 August 2017 Pages: 42 - 55

   

6. Review of Schismatogobius (Gobiidae) from Japan, with the description of a new species

   • Ken Maeda
   • Toshifumi Saeki
   • Nori Satoh

   Full Paper 25 July 2017 Pages: 56 - 77

   

7. Validity of Abudefduf caudobimaculatus Okada and Ikeda 1939 and synonymies of Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy and Gaimard 1825) (Perciformes: Pomacentridae)

   • Kunto Wibowo
   • Minoru Toda
   • Hiroyuki Motomura

   Full Paper 03 August 2017 Pages: 78 - 91

   

8. Cryptic genetic divergence in Scolopsis taenioptera (Perciformes: Nemipteridae) in the western Pacific Ocean

   • Ryo Kakioka
   • Nozomu Muto
   • Satoshi Ishikawa

   Full Paper 07 August 2017 Pages: 92 - 100

   

9. Three new species of the genus Acropoma (Perciformes: Acropomatidae) from the Indian Ocean

   • Makoto Okamoto
   • Daniel Golani

   Full Paper 04 August 2017 Pages: 101 - 114

   

10. Phylogeography of the eight-barbel loach Lefua nikkonis (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae): how important were straits in northern Japan as biogeographical barriers?

    • Akira Ooyagi
    • Daniel F. Mokodongan
    • Kazunori Yamahira

    Full Paper 08 September 2017 Pages: 115 - 126

    

11. Ostichthys spiniger, a new species of soldierfish from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Holocentridae)

    • Ronald Fricke

    Full Paper 17 October 2017 Pages: 127 - 133

    

12. Genetic characteristics and possible introduced origin of the paradise fish Macropodus opercularis in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan

    • Yuichi Kano
    • Ryoichi Tabata
    • Katsutoshi Watanabe

    Full Paper 17 October 2017 Pages: 134 - 141

    

13. Redescription of the bump-head sunfish Mola alexandrini (Ranzani 1839), senior synonym of Mola ramsayi (Giglioli 1883), with designation of a neotype for Mola mola (Linnaeus 1758) (Tetraodontiformes: Molidae)

    • Etsuro Sawai
    • Yusuke Yamanoue
    • Yoichi Sakai

    Full Paper 05 December 2017 Pages: 142 - 160

    

14. Behavioural evidence for the use of geomagnetic cue in Japanese glass eel Anguilla japonica orientation

    • Takaaki Nishi
    • Miguel Vazquez Archdale
    • Gunzo Kawamura

    Short Report 26 May 2017 Pages: 161 - 164

    

15. No reduction of hatching rates among F1 hybrids of naturally hybridizing three Far Eastern daces, genus Tribolodon (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae)

    • Keisuke Atsumi
    • Kazuhiro Nomoto
    • Itsuro Koizumi

    Short Report 06 June 2017 Pages: 165 - 167

16. Field survey and resin casting of Gymnogobius macrognathos spawning nests in the Tatara River, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

    • Yumi Henmi
    • Katsuhisa Eguchi
    • Gyo Itani

    Short Report 26 June 2017 Pages: 168 - 171

    

17. Temperature-dependent gastric evacuation rate of the Japanese delicate loach Niwaella delicata (Cobitidae)

    • Hikaru Nakagawa

    Short Report 13 September 2017 Pages: 172 - 174

    

18. Book review

    • Mizuki Matsunuma

    Book Review 11 September 2017 Pages: 175 - 176