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A New Cleaning Method for Accurate Examination of Freshwater Gastropod Shell Specimens Covered with Iron-rich Deposits ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 September 2021

A New Host Record forTritetrabdella taiwana(Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Haemadipsidae) from the Asian Painted FrogKaloula pulchra(Anura: Microhylidae) in Hong Kong, China, with a Taxonomic Note onT. taiwana

scientific article published on 13 February 2014

A New Quadrannulate Species of Orobdella (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Orobdellidae) from Kii Peninsula, Japan ⬇️

A New Quadrannulate Species of Orobdella (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Orobdellidae) from Pingtung, Taiwan ⬇️

A New Species of Branchellion (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) Parasitizing the Gills of Short-Tail Stingrays (Batoidea: Dasyatidae) from the West Pacific

scientific article published in 2023

A New Species of Brevitalitrus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) from Malaysia ⬇️

A New Species of Orobdella (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Gastrostomobdellidae) from Tsushima Island, Japan ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

A New Species of Orobdella (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Orobdellidae) from Japan Reveals the Function of the Orobdella Gastroporal Duct.

scientific article

A New Species of the Genus Pseudocrangonyx (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pseudocrangonyctidae) from Yonaguni Island, Southwestern Japan, and Historical Biogeographic Insights of Pseudocrangonyctids

scientific article published in 2022

A New Stygobitic Species of the Genus Pseudocrangonyx (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pseudocrangonyctidae) from Central Honshu, Japan ⬇️

A molecular phylogeny of Pseudocrangonyx from Japan, including a new subterranean species (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Pseudocrangonyctidae)

scholarly article

A new landhopper species ofMyanmarorchestia(Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) from Yunnan, China

scientific article published in 2018

A new predatory leech from Vietnam (Hirudinida : Arhynchobdellida : Salifidae): its phylogenetic position with comments on the classification of the family

A new quadrannulate species of Orobdella (Hirudinida, Arhynchobdellida, Orobdellidae) from central Honshu, Japan

scientific article

A new quadrannulate species of Orobdella (Hirudinida, Arhynchobdellida, Orobdellidae) from western Honshu, Japan

scientific article

A new sexannulate species of Orobdella (Hirudinida, Arhynchobdellida, Orobdellidae) from Yakushima Island, Japan ⬇️

scientific article published on April 6, 2012

A new species of <I>Cybaeus</I> with short genitalia from central Honshu, Japan (Araneae: Cybaeidae)

A new species of Calliopius (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Calliopiidae) from Japan

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

A new species of Cybaeus L. Koch, 1868 (Araneae, Cybaeidae) with simple genitalia from central Japan is the sister species of C. melanoparvus Kobayashi, 2006 with elongated genitalia

scientific article

A new species of Orobdella (Hirudinida, Arhynchobdellida, Gastrostomobdellidae) and redescription of O. kawakatsuorum from Hokkaido, Japan with the phylogenetic position of the new species ⬇️

scientific article published on February 10, 2012

A new species of Orobdella (Hirudinida, Arhynchobdellida, Orobdellidae) from Taipei, Taiwan

scientific article

A new species of Orobdella (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Orobdellidae) from Primorye Territory, Russian Far East

scientific article published in 2019

A new species of Paramoera (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pontogeneiidae) from an estuary habitat in Hokkaido, Japan

scientific article

A new species of Tritetrabdella (Hirudinida: Hirudiniformes: Haemadipsidae) from northern Indochina ⬇️

scientific article published in 2016

A new species of buffalo leech in the genus Hirudinaria Whitman, 1886 (Arhynchobdellida, Hirudinidae) from Thailand

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

A new species of the genus Elasmopus from Miyako Island, Japan (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Maeridae)

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

A new species of the genus Nicippe from Japan (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Pardaliscidae)

scientific article

A new species of the genus Orobdella (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Gastrostomobdellidae) from Kumamoto, Japan, and a redescription of O. whitmani with the designation of the lectotype ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

A new species of the genus Pseudocrangonyx (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Pseudocrangonyctidae) from Korea

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

A new species of the genus Pseudocrangonyx (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pseudocrangonyctidae) from Simbok Cave, Korea

scientific article published on 7 February 2020

A new species of the genus Pseudocrangonyx (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pseudocrangonyctidae) from subterranean waters of Japan

scientific article published in 2023

A new species of the rare genus Priscomilitaris from the Seto Inland Sea, Japan (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Priscomilitaridae)

scientific article (publication date: 25 July 2016)

A new species of the subterranean millipede genus Antrokoreana Verhoeff, 1938 from the Nanatsuoguchi Mine, central Honshu, Japan, and insights into the phylogenetic position of Antrokoreana (Diplopoda, Julida, Nemasomatidae)

scientific article published on 7 March 2022

Analysis of genetic variation in mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 between Haemadipsa japonica in Japan and land leeches worldwide

Citizen science reveals the present range and a potential native predator of the invasive slug Limax maximus Linnæus, 1758 in Hokkaido, Japan

scientific article published in 2017

Complete mitochondrial genome of (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pseudocrangonyctidae)

Correct Authorships, Synonymies, and Remarks on the Type Series of Fourteen Names of Centipedes Introduced by Yoshioki Takakuwa in 1934 and Mecistocephalus takakuwai (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha and Scolopendromorpha) ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 March 2022

Deep-sea amphipod genus Eurythenes from Japan, with a description of a new Eurythenes species from off Hokkaido (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 July 2017

Description of a New Species of Cybaeus (Araneae: Cybaeidae) from Central Honshu, Japan ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2020

Description of a New Species of Rhabdias (Nematoda: Rhabditida: Rhabdiasidae) from Ishigakijima Island, Okinawa, Japan ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2020

Diversity of Leeches from Japan: Recent Progress in Macrophagous and Blood-Feeding Taxa

Environmental DNA reveals cryptic diversity within the subterranean amphipod genus Pseudocrangonyx Akatsuka & Komai, 1922 (Amphipoda: Crangonyctoidea: Pseudocrangonyctidae) from central Japan

scientific article published in 2020

Evaluating the ontogenetic external morphology of an ectoparasitic Torix tukubana (Hirudinida: Glossiphoniidae), with records of its new host amphibian species

scientific article published on 13 November 2018

Evaluation of the Systematic Status of Geographical Variations in Arcuphantes hibanus (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae), with Descriptions of Two New Species

scientific article

First Record of Mimobdella japonica (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Salifidae) from Hachijojima Island, Izu Islands, Japan, with a Comment on the Genetic Diversity of the Species ⬇️

First Record of Mimobdella japonica (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Salifidae) from Okinawajima Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with a Description of the Specimens from the Ryukyu Islands ⬇️

First Record of Orobdella tsushimensis (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Gastrostomobdellidae) from the Korean Peninsula and Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships of the Specimens ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 April 2014

First Record of Orobdella tsushimensis (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Orobdellidae) from Korea (Gageodo Island) and its Molecular Phylogenetic Position within the Genus ⬇️

First Record of Poecilobdella nanjingensis (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Hirudinidae) from Taiwan and its Molecular Phylogenetic Position within the Family ⬇️

First Record of the Predatory Leech Whitmania laevis (Hirudinea: Hirudiniformes: Hirudinidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with New Insights into the Phylogenetic Relationships within Whitmania

scientific article published on 23 August 2024

First record of Limnatispaluda (Hirudinida, Arhynchobdellida, Praobdellidae) from Kazakhstan, with comments on genetic diversity of Limnatis leeches

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

First record of Orobdellakawakatsuorum (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Erpobdelliformes) from Kunashir Island, Kuril Islands

scientific article

First record of the terrestrial amphipod, Talitroides alluaudi (Chevreux, 1896) (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Brevitalitridae), from Japan

scientific article published in 2021

First record of the terrestrial predatory leech, Orobdella kawakatsuorum Richardson, 1975 (Clitellata, Hirudinea, Erpobdelliformes), from Moneron Island, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

scientific article published in 2021

First records of a blind centipede, Cryptops navis Chamberlin, 1930 (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Cryptopidae), from Japan ⬇️

Four new species of the genus Orobdella from Shikoku and Awajishima island, Japan (Hirudinida, Arhynchobdellida, Orobdellidae)

scholarly article

Further records of introduced Semisulcospira snails in Japan (Mollusca, Gastropoda): implications for these snails’ correct morphological identification

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Holotype redescription of Mimobdella japonica (Hirudinida, Arhynchobdellida, Erpobdelliformes) and taxonomic status of the genus Mimobdella ⬇️

scientific article published on July 15, 2011

Host selection of hematophagous leeches ( Haemadipsa japonica ): Implications for iDNA studies

scientific article published in 2019

Host-parasite relationships between seabirds and the haemadipsid leech Chtonobdella palmyrae (Annelida: Clitellata) inhabiting oceanic islands in the Pacific Ocean

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Insights into sex-related size and shape dimorphism in Semisulcospira niponica (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea: Semisulcospiridae)

scientific article published in 2022

Insights into the phylogenetic position and phylogeography of the monospecific skink-parasite genus

scholarly article published in 2022

Integrative approach clarifies the distinct taxonomic account of gryloblattids endemic to Hokkaido, Japan, with a description of two new species (Insecta, Grylloblattodea)

scientific article published in 2023

Integrative taxonomy of insular land snails of the genus Sicradiscus Páll‐Gergely, 2013 (Gastropoda, Plectopylidae) with description of a new species ⬇️

scientific article published on 29 October 2021

Integrative taxonomy reveals multiple lineages of the spider genus Cybaeus endemic to the Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Arachnida : Araneae : Cybaeidae)

Low genetic diversity in Ozobranchus jantseanus (Hirudinida: Ozobranchidae) in Japan: Possibility of introduction with their host turtles

scientific article

Mandatory changes of specific names to agree in gender with Talitriator Methuen, 1913, which is masculine (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae)

scientific article published in 2018

Molecular analysis of larvae suggests the existence of a second species of Sulcascaris (Nematoda: Anisakidae: Anisakinae) in the Japanese moon scallop (Ylistrum japonicum) from Japanese waters

Molecular phylogenetic position of Minamitalitrus zoltani elucidates a further troglobisation pattern in cave-dwelling terrestrial amphipods (Crustacea: Talitridae)

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Ochetosoma kansense （Plagiorchiida: Ochetosomatidae） from Native Snake Species in Japan

scientific article

Ocular infestation by a juvenile leech, Myxobdella sinanensis in Japan

On the Authorship of the Genus-group Name Curtipleon (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Metapseudidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Origin and intraspecific diversification of the scincid lizard Ateuchosaurus pellopleurus with implications for historical island biogeography of the Central Ryukyus of Japan

scientific article published in September 2020

Ovary cord micromorphology in the blood-sucking haemadipsid leech Haemadipsa japonica (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Hirudiniformes)

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

Phylogenetic position of gastrostomobdellid leeches (Hirudinida, Arhynchobdellida, Erpobdelliformes) and a new family for the genusOrobdella

scholarly article by Takafumi Nakano et al published 28 December 2011 in Zoologica Scripta

Praobdellidae (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida) is not specific only to the mucous-membrane after all: Discovery of a praobdellid leech feeding on the Japanese freshwater crab Geothelphusa dehaani.

scientific article

Reassessment of the Groundwater Amphipod Paramoera relicta Synonymizes the Genus Relictomoera with Paramoera (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pontogeneiidae)

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Redescription of Gyrinicola japonica, a Tadpole-Endoparasitic Nematode from Japan, with Resurrection of the Family Gyrinicolidae (Nematoda: Oxyurina)

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Redescription of Orobdella octonaria (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Orobdellidae) with Designation of a Lectotype ⬇️

Redescription of Semisulcospira reticulata (Mollusca, Semisulcospiridae) with description of a new species from Lake Biwa, Japan

scientific article published in 2024

Redescription of the Subterranean Millipede <i>Antrokoreana gujoensis</i> (Diplopoda: Julida: Nemasomatidae) from Central Honshu, Japan

Rediscovered syntypes of Procrangonyx japonicus, with nomenclatural consideration of some crangonyctoidean subterranean amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Allocrangonyctidae, Niphargidae, Pseudocrangonyctidae)

scientific article published on 16 December 2018

Relictithismia kimotsukiensis, a new genus and species of Thismiaceae from southern Japan with discussions on its phylogenetic relationship

scholarly article (2024)

Replacement names for four preoccupied talitrid genus-group names proposed by Lowry & Myers in 2019 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Senticaudata)

scientific article published on 13 June 2019

Revision of the taxonomic status of two coelotine species (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Japan ⬇️

scientific article published in 2017

Revisiting a 135-year-old Taxonomic Account of the Freshwater Snail Semisulcospira multigranosa: Designating its Lectotype and Describing a New Species of the genus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Semisulcospiridae). ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Sika deer presence affects the host-parasite interface of a Japanese land leech

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Systematic revision of the Southeast Asian macrophagous leeches, with the description of two new gastrostomobdellid species (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Erpobdelliformes)

article by Takafumi Nakano et al published 25 January 2018 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

TERRESTRIAL LEECHES OF THE GENUS OROBDELLA OKA, 1895 (HIRUDINIDA: ARHYNCHOBDELLIDA) OF THE LAZOVSKY NATURE RESERVE (PRIMORYE TERRITORY, RUSSIA)

Tangenarchopsis , a New Replacement Name for the Preoccupied Tangiopsis (Trematoda: Digenea: Hemiuroidea: Derogenidae) ⬇️

Taxonomic Accounts and Phylogenetic Positions of the Far East Asian Centipedes Scolopocryptops elegans and S. curtus (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)

scientific article published in 2022

Taxonomic Assessment of a Threatened Large Millipede Endemic to the Southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan: a New Species of <i>Spirobolus</i> (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Spirobolidae) from the Yaeyama Islands

Taxonomic Reassessment of Cybaeus communis and Cybaeus maculosus (Araneae: Cybaeidae) from Central Honshu, Japan ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 March 2022

Taxonomic revision and re-description of Ateuchosaurus pellopleurus (Hallowell, 1861) (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae) with resurrection of A. okinavensis (Thompson, 1912)

scholarly article (2023)

Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Melita (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the West Pacific Islands, with descriptions of four new species

scholarly article published in 2022

Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation ⬇️

journal article from 'PLOS Biology' published in 2018

Terrestrial predatory leeches of the genus Orobdella (Hirudinea: Erpobdelliformes: Orobdellidae) endemic to the Southern Russian Far East: a new species of the genus from Primorsky Krai, Russia

scientific article published in 2024

The Original Spelling of the Specific Name of Cybaeus monticolus (Araneae: Cybaeidae) Should be Reinstated ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 September 2021

The complete mitochondrial genome of (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pseudocrangonyctidae)

The correct authorship of the amphipod genus-group name Quasimodia (Senticaudata: Hyaloidea: Phliantidae)

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

The enigmatic groundwater amphipod Awacaris kawasawai revisited: synonymisation of the genus Sternomoera, with molecular phylogenetic analyses of Awacaris and Sternomoera species (Crustacea : Amphipoda : Pontogeneiidae)

The subterranean spider Cybaeus fujisanus (Araneae: Cybaeidae) revisited: The first description of a male from Mt. Fuji, Japan

scientific article published in 2021

Three species of land leeches from Taiwan, Haemadipsa rjukjuana comb. n., a new record for Haemadipsa picta Moore, and an updated description of Tritetrabdella taiwana (Oka)

scientific article

Topotype-based redescription of the leech Torix tukubana (Hirudinida: Glossiphoniiformes: Glossiphoniidae)

scientific article published in 2020

Two new species of Jesogammarus from Japan (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Anisogammaridae), with comments on the validity of the subgenera Jesogammarus and Annanogammarus

scientific article published on 17 March 2017

Two new subterranean species of Pseudocrangonyx Akatsuka & Komai, 1922 (Amphipoda: Crangonyctoidea: Pseudocrangonyctidae), with an insight into groundwater faunal relationships in western Japan

scientific article published in 2018

A new sexannulate species of Orobdella (Hirudinea, Arhynchobdellida, Orobdellidae) from Kii-Oshima Island, Japan

scientific article published in 2022

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