Papers - MURASE Atsunobu
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First records of a rare snake eel, Leiuranus versicolor (Anguilliformes, Ophichthidae) from Japan Reviewed
Yusuke Hibino, Yukiya Ogata, Shunsuke Endo, Masaaki Wada, Atsunobu Murase, Noritaka Mochioka
FishTaxa 4 ( 3 ) 145 - 149 2019.12
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
Leiuranus versicolor (Richardson, 1848) is recorded based on a specimen from Miyazaki Prefecture, southern Japan. It represents the first Japanese and northernmost record. Leiuranus versicolor is similar to L. semicinctus, its single congener. The former can be easily separated from the latter by its unique banded pattern, usually with a narrow whitish yellow slit (vs. slit absent). The species was also photographed from Kashiwajima, southern part of Kochi Prefecture, southern Japan.
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Kobayashi Y, Murase A, Wada M, Hata H, Miki R, Senou H
Biogeography 19 1 - 5 2019.9
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
A single specimen of the engraulid fish Encrasicholina pseudoheteroloba (Hardenberg, 1933) (49.3 mm in standard length), a tropical Indo-West Pacific species, was collected as bycatch in one of two commercial set nets in Kadogawa Bay, northern Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. Extending the northern distribution limit of E. pseudoheteroloba by about 530 km north-northeastward of the previous northernmost specimen-based record (Amami-oshima island, Satsunan Islands), the specimen represents the first verifiable temperate zone record of the species and first from mainland Japan. The temperate zone record is discussed and a description of the specimen given.
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First Miyazaki record of Propherallodus briggsi (Gobiesocidae) from Kadogawa Bay, southern Japan
Ogata, Y., Y. Yamasaki, K. Fujiwara and A. Murase
46 17 - 20 2019.6
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
A single specimen of Japanese Butterfly Clingfish, Propherallodus briggsi (Gobiesocidae) (20.3 mm in standard length), was collected from Kaneiso (32º28'13''N, 131º 40'58''E), Kadogawa Bay, Miyazaki Prefecture, southern Japan on 7 April 2019. This specimen represents the first record from Miyazaki Prefecture.
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Records of two cool-temperate fish species, Ocynectes maschalis (Cottidae) and Neosynchiropus ijimae (Callionymidae), from coasts of Miyazaki Prefecture, southern Japan Reviewed
Yukiya Ogata, Ryohei Miki, Yuta Yamasaki, Shinjiro Nagatomo, Atsunobu Murase
Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 73 149 - 155 2018.12
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
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The northernmost record of the fringelip blenny, Salarias sinuosus (Teleostei: Blenniidae), based on a specimen from Nichinan City, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyusyu, southern Japan Reviewed
Yuta Yamasaki, Ryohei Miki, Atsunobu Murase
Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 73 177 - 180 2018.12
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
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Northernmost record of the Snubnose Grouper, Epinephelus macrospilos (Teleostei, Perciformes, Serranidae), from Nichinan City, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu, southern Japan Reviewed
Ryuya Sakamoto, Ryohei Miki, Atsunobu Murase
Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 73 215 - 220 2018.12
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
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The northernmost record of the fringelip blenny, Salarias sinuosus (Teleostei: Blenniidae), based on a specimen from Nichinan City, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyusyu, southern JapanVoucher-based record of a blenniid fish, Omobranchus fasciolatoceps (Teleostei: Omobranchini), from northern part of Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyusyu, southern Japan Reviewed
Yuya Kobayashi, Ryuya Sakamot, Ryohei Miki, Masaaki Wada, Atsunobu Murase
Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 73 195 - 200 2018.12
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
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Murase A, Miki R, Wada M, Itou M, Motomura H, Senou H
ZooKeys 772 153 - 163 2018.7
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
The Potato Grouper, Epinephelus tukula, is relatively rare worldwide. Records from the northernmost part of its range (Japan) have been few, resulting in a “Critically Endangered” listing on the Red List for Japan. The Japanese records were revised by examining literature, new specimens, photographs, and the internet, and a continuous distribution pattern from the tropical Ryukyu Islands (including adult individuals) to temperate regions affected by the Kuroshio Current were delineated; this suggests the species inhabits tropical Japan and can spread to temperate regions via the warm current. The species possibly reproduces in Japanese waters but further reproductive ecology research is required.
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Miki R., Murase A., Wada M.
Check List 14 ( 1 ) 243 - 255 2018.2
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Check List
© 2018, Pensoft Publishers. All rights reserved. A checklist is presented of ponyfish species (Teleostei, Leiognathidae) from the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture, eastern coast of Kyushu, in the warm temperate zone of Japan and in areas influenced by the warm Kuroshio Current. Fish collection surveys (autumn, October 2016 to winter, early 2017) recorded 9 species of the family, including 1 collected by previous authors. Records of 3 species, Gazza minuta (Bloch, 1795), Leiognathus equulus (Forsskål, 1775), and Leiognathus fasciatus (Lacepède, 1803), extended their distributional ranges northward by ca 150–500 km. These 3 species and 3 others are distributed mainly in the tropical zone, and, combined with previous records of leiognathid fishes along the coasts influenced by the Kuroshio Current in southern Japan, this study shows a continuous distribution pattern of these tropical species, suggesting that the east coast of Kyushu is also influenced by this warm current. Diagnostic features, color images, and voucher specimen data are provided for each species.
DOI： 10.15560/14.1.243
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The northernmost record of a tidal flat crab, Macrophthalmus convexus (Crustacea: Decapoda), based on a specimen from an estuary of Tanega-shima island, southern Japan Reviewed
Murase A, Koyama A
Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 72 250 - 252 2018.1
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
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Record of a pipehorse, Solegnathus hardwickii (Actinopterygii, Syngnathiformes, Syngnathidae), based on a voucher specimen from northern part of Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu, southern Japan with notes on underwater photographs of an egg-bearing male of the species Reviewed
Miki R, Murase A, Wada M
Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 72 286 - 291 2018.1
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
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The northernmost record of the four-fingered lipsucker, Andamia tetradactyla (Actinoperygii, Blenniidae), based on a specimen from Aoshima, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu, southern Japan Reviewed
Ogata Y, Murase A, Miki R
Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 72 258 - 261 2018.1
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
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Atsunobu Murase, Ryohei Miki, Hiroyuki Motomura
Zookeys 725 79 - 95 2017.12
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
Understanding the distributional patterns of individual animal groups with respect to coastal topology and the local physical environment provides essential foundational frameworks for marine zoogeography. In the northwestern Pacific waters of Japan, the distributional pattern of some cool-temperate species of marine fishes suggests the existence of a biogeographic boundary corresponding to a long sandy shore on the eastern coast of Kyushu, southern Japan. The existence of this hypothetical biogeographic boundary was tested by mapping the southern distributional limit of two species of cool-temperate intertidal gobies, Chaenogobius annularis and C. gulosus, which are endemic to East Asia and common in rock pools within their range in the Japanese Archipelago. Distribution and abundance were assessed by survey of museum collections from south-east Kyushu (i.e., the entire coasts of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures); and a quantitative survey of the abundance of these gobies in rock pools at various sites around the hypothesized boundary on the eastern coast of Kyushu, including the subtropical Tanega-shima Island. The museum collection survey showed different distribution patterns between the two species: C. annularis was distributed along the entire coasts of south-east Kyushu including subtropical islands, whereas C. gulosus was distributed along these coasts, including one site on a subtropical island, except for an area south of the hypothesized boundary on the eastern coast of Kyushu. The density and occurrence rates of C. annularis in rock pools decreased with latitude, it being absent from a subtropical island, and C. gulosus was not detected from sites south of the hypothesized boundary. The qualitative survey showed that the southernmost records of C. annularis and C. gulosus were the adjacent subtropical islands (Yaku-shima and Tanega-shima islands respectively), although the quantitative survey suggested that their normal range of distribution was limited to the southern part of the Kyushu mainland. A combination of qualitative and quantitative survey methods in the present study highlighted that the southernmost record of a certain species may not necessarily indicate the true limit of its distribution. The distribution of C. gulosus supports the existence of the hypothetical biogeographic boundary, and the different distribution patterns of the two species may be caused by differences in their early life histories.
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Ryohei Miki, Atsunobu Murase, Masaaki Wada
Biogeography 19 1 - 4 2017.9
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
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Ryohei Miki, Atsunobu Murase, Masaaki Wada
Biogeography 19 127 - 132 2017.9
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
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Ryohei Miki, Atsunobu Murase
Biogeography 19 5 - 9 2017.9
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI： 10.11358/biogeo.19.5
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Murase A., Miyazaki Y., Moteki M., Kohno H.
La mer 55 ( 1-2 ) 37 - 51 2017.8
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Mer
© 2017 Societe Franco-Japonaise d'Oceanographie. All rights reserved. We analysed datasets of fish assemblages for two timescales (decadal and annual composed of four periods: 1993-1994; 2004-2005; 2005-2006; 2006-2007) to estimate the temporal dynamics of assemblage structures and changes in estuarine use functional groups (EUFGs) along a modified shoreline. The datasets were obtained from monthly sampling using a light trap at a mooring berth site reinforced with a vertical hard structure in an estua rine canal in Tokyo, Japan. A comparison of the fish community parameters during the sampling periods showed significant decadal variation in some factors, but no significant variation across sequential annual timescales. Total species richness increased due to increased richness in fish in the marine EUFG category. The percent abundance of marine fish also significantly increased, whereas the abundance of estuarine fish (primarily Acanthogobius flavimanus predominated) decreased. Habitat degradation around the mooring berth site accompanying city planning might be responsible for the decline in estuarine fish species over several decades, whereas the increased species richness reflected a recent recovery in water quality in the Tokyo Bay. These results suggest that nowadays the study site functions as an ecological corridor between natural shore sites rather than as a true habitat for estuarine fish species.
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Record of a box fish, Tetrosomus gibbosus (Tetraodontiformes, Ostraciidae), based on a specimen from Kadogawa Bay, Miyazaki Prefecture, southern Japan Reviewed
Ryohei Miki, Atsunobu Murase, Masaaki Wada
Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 71 63 - 67 2017.1
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
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A voucher specimen based record of Tachysurus aurantiacus (Siluriformes, Bagridae) from Oyodo-gawa River system in the Miyazaki Prefecture, southern Japan Reviewed
Yusuke Miyazaki, Atsunobu Murase
Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 71 265 - 270 2017.1
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
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Record of the giant mottled eel, Anguilla marmorata (Actinoperygii, Anguillidae), collected from Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu, southern Japan with notes on the habitat Reviewed
Yukiya Ogata, Atsunobu Murase, Hiroshi Senou
Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 71 213 - 216 2017.1
Language：Japanese Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)