Fish biology in Japan: an anthology in honour of Hiroya Kawanabe

Prelude to the anthology in honour of Hiroya Kawanabe

• Masahide Yuma, Izumi Nakamura, Kurt D. Fausch

Front Matter

The life and work of Hiroya Kawanabe: the priest ecologist

• Masahide Yuma, Eiji Harada

Lifetime list of publications by Hiroya Kawanabe

• Masahide Yuma

An interview with Hiroya Kawanabe

• Eiji Harada

Front Matter

Research on fish ecology in Japan: a brief history and selected review

• Kurt D. Fausch, Shigeru Nakano

Distribution of the freshwater fishes of Japan: an historical overview

• Masahide Yuma, Kazumi Hosoya, Yoshikazu Nagata

New aspects of sex change among reef fishes: recent studies in Japan

• Tetsuo Kuwamura, Yasuhiro Nakashima

Front Matter

Evolution of freshwater eels of the genus Anguilla: a probable scenario

• Katsumi Tsukamoto, Jun Aoyama

Genetic structure and differentiation of four Lethenteron taxa from the Far East, deduced from allozyme analysis

• Yuji Yamazaki, Akira Goto

Osteology of Zacco pachycephalus, sensu Jordan & Evermann (1903), with special reference to its systematic position

• Hiroshi Ashiwa, Kazumi Hosoya

A study of the systematics of cyprinid fishes by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis

• Jun-Ichi Miyazaki, Tamio Hirabayashi, Kazumi Hosoya, Tetsuo Iwami

Fertilization environment of the non-copulating marine sculpin, Hemilepidotus gilberti

• Youichi Hayakawa, Hiroyuki Munehara

Comparison of laboratory-reared eggs, embryos and larvae of five labrid fishes

• Seishi Kimura, Yoshinori Nakayama, Takanari Kiriyama

Life-history variations in the fluvial sculpin, Cottus nozawae (Cottidae), along the course of a small mountain stream

• Akira Goto

Spawning ecology of Japanese surf smelt, Hypomesus pretiosus japonicus (Osmeridae), in Otsuchi Bay, northeastern Japan

• Taro Hirose, Kouichi Kawaguchi

Timing and sites of parturition of the viviparous scorpionfish, Sebastiscus marmoratus

• Hiroshi Fujita, Masanori Kohda