著者

柁原 宏 高久 元 藤田 喜久 角井 敬知

出版者

日本動物分類学会

雑誌

タクサ:日本動物分類学会誌 (ISSN:13422367)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.46, pp.1-2, 2019-02-28 (Released:2019-03-23)

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Although the 2018 symposium of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, entitled ‘Recent progress and future potential in faunal studies of the submarine caves in the Ryukyu Islands’ was scheduled to be held on the occasion of the 89th annual meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan in Hokkaido, it was unfortunately canceled due to the earthquake ‘2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake’. However, the five interesting articles were given by the special invited authors: 1) Yoshihisa Fujita ‘The fauna of decapod crustaceans in submarine caves of the Ryukyu Islands, with special reference to environmental factors in the caves’, 2) Yuji Ise ‘Preliminary report of submarine cave sponges in Shimoji Island, Miyako Islands, Okinawa’, 3) Mitchitaka Shimomura ‘Review of recent taxonomic studies of peracarid crustaceans in submarine and anchialine caves of the Ryukyu Islands’, 4) Masanori Okanishi and Yoshihisa Fujita ‘Ophiuroids from submarine caves of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan’, and 5) Akira Iguchi, Masaru Mizuyama, Takefumi Yorisue and Yoshihisa Fujita ‘Current situation and future issues of DNA studies of submarine caves of the Ryukyu Islands’. In this paper, we introduce the purpose and the contents of this special issue.