1. Mucus provisioning behavior in teleost fishes: a novel model system for the evolution of secretory provisioning in vertebrates

   • Shun Satoh
   • Will Sowersby

   Review 10 October 2020 Pages: 1 - 10

   

2. Parupeneus williamsi, a new species of goatfish (Perciformes: Mullidae) endemic to the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia

   • Shunta Shibuya
   • Hiroyuki Motomura

   Full Paper 10 May 2020 Pages: 11 - 20

   

3. Japanese eels, Anguilla japonica, can surmount a 46-m-high natural waterfall of the Amikake River system of Kyushu Island, Japan

   • Kazuki Matsushige
   • Yusuke Hibino
   • Noritaka Mochioka

   Full Paper 07 July 2020 Pages: 21 - 31

   

4. Redescription of the circumglobal deepwater scorpionfish Setarches guentheri (Setarchidae)

   • Hidetoshi Wada
   • Yoshiaki Kai
   • Hiroyuki Motomura

   Full Paper 11 July 2020 Pages: 32 - 54

   

5. A new species of Elassodiscus (Cottoidei: Liparidae) from the North Pacific with an emended diagnosis of the genus

   • Yoshiaki Kai
   • Koji Matsuzaki
   • Moeko Kamiunten

   Full Paper 16 July 2020 Pages: 55 - 66

   

6. Genetic diversity and morphological stasis in the Ceylon Snakehead, Channa orientalis (Teleostei: Channidae)

   • Hiranya Sudasinghe
   • R. H. Tharindu Ranasinghe
   • Ralf Britz

   Full Paper 06 August 2020 Pages: 67 - 80

   

7. A new silverside, Doboatherina palauensis (Atheriniformes: Atherinidae) from the Palau Islands in the West Pacific

   • Seishi Kimura
   • Kosuke Takeda
   • Naoto Hanzawa

   Full Paper 02 August 2020 Pages: 81 - 85

   

8. Complex phylogeographic patterns in the intertidal goby Chaenogobius annularis around Kyushu Island as a boundary zone of three different seas

   • Shuya Kato
   • Seiji Arakaki
   • Shotaro Hirase

   Full Paper 28 August 2020 Pages: 86 - 100

   

9. Type status of Hyalorhynchus pellucidus Ogilby 1910 (Scorpaeniformes: Platycephalidae) with a discussion of Endeavour fishes described by J. D. Ogilby in 1910 from Australia

   • Hisashi Imamura
   • Douglass F. Hoese

   Full Paper 14 September 2020 Pages: 101 - 110

   

10. Fish assemblage structure response to seagrass bed degradation due to overgrazing by the green sea turtle Chelonia mydas at Iriomote Island, southern Japan

    • Hiroyuki Inoue
    • Akira Mizutani
    • Hiroyoshi Kohno

    Full Paper 23 September 2020 Pages: 111 - 125

    

11. Redescriptions of Dussumieria acuta Valenciennes 1847 and Dussumieria albulina (Fowler 1934), two valid species of rainbow sardines (Clupeiformes: Dussumieriidae)

    • Harutaka Hata
    • Sébastien Lavoué
    • Hiroyuki Motomura

    Full Paper 22 September 2020 Pages: 126 - 138

    

12. First report of natural hybridization between two yellowtails, Seriola quinqueradiata and S. lalandi

    • Hiroshi Takahashi
    • Taiki Kurogoushi
    • Hiroyuki Yoshikawa

    Short Report 07 May 2020 Pages: 139 - 144

    

13. Contrasting diets of the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica, in the upper and lower areas of Tsuchikawa-gawa River, Kagoshima, Japan

    • Ryoshiro Wakiya
    • Noritaka Mochioka

    Short Report 29 May 2020 Pages: 145 - 151

    

14. Characterizing the spatial and temporal occurrence patterns of the endangered botiid loach Parabotia curtus by environmental DNA analysis using a newly developed species-specific primer set

    • Ko Sugiura
    • Sei Tomita
    • Katsutoshi Watanabe

    Short Report 03 June 2020 Pages: 152 - 157

    

15. Upper thermal tolerance of larval Arctic lamprey (Lethenteron camtschaticum)

    • Hiroaki Arakawa
    • Seiji Yanai

    Short Report 27 June 2020 Pages: 158 - 163

    

16. Feeding habits of the skinnycheek lanternfish [Benthosema pterotum (Alcock, 1890)] in Kagoshima Bay, southern Japan

    • Akimasa Habano
    • Toru Kobari
    • Gen Kume

    Short Report 28 June 2020 Pages: 164 - 170

    

17. Feeding habits of the mesopelagic fish Sigmops gracilis larvae in the Kuroshio and its adjacent water, southern Japan

    • Shohei Yoshinaga
    • Toru Kobari
    • Gen Kume

    Short Report 28 June 2020 Pages: 171 - 176

    

18. Geographical continuity and discontinuity in the meristic characteristics of ayus of the southern subspecies Plecoglossus altivelis ryukyuensis

    • Linh Manh Ha
    • Kei’ichiro Iguchi

    Short Report 21 July 2020 Pages: 177 - 181

    

19. Morphological and genetic identification of formalin-fixed gobioid larvae and description of postflexion larvae of Paragunnellichthys sp. and Ctenogobiops feroculus

    • Nozomi Hanahara
    • Kei Miyamoto
    • Shin-ichiro Oka

    Short Report 10 October 2020 Pages: 182 - 190

    

20. Trophic resource partitioning by sympatric ecomorphs of Schizopygopsis (Cyprinidae) in a young Pamir Mountain lake: preliminary results

    • Aleksandra S. Komarova
    • Oksana L. Rozanova
    • Boris A. Levin

    Short Report 30 August 2020 Pages: 191 - 197

    

21. Environmental DNA analysis provides an overview of distribution patterns of two dojo loach species within the Naka-ikemi Wetland, Fukui Prefecture, Japan

    • Ryuya Okada
    • Satsuki Tsuji
    • Hiroki Yamanaka

    Short Report 07 September 2020 Pages: 198 - 206

    

22. A record of Tetraroge nigra (Tetrarogidae) from Iriomote Island, southern Japan, with notes on its ecological aspects

    • Mao Sato
    • Hirozumi Kobayashi
    • Kunio Sasaki

    News and Comments 10 August 2020 Pages: 207 - 213

    

23. Stingray spines embedded in the skull of a cobia

    • Steve Huskey

    News and Comments 23 July 2020 Pages: 214 - 216

    

24. Japanese eel at the northern edge: glass eel migration into a river on Hokkaido, Japan

    • Kentaro Morita
    • Mari Kuroki

    News & Comments 07 August 2020 Pages: 217 - 221