著者
吉行 瑞子
出版者
国立科学博物館
雑誌
Bulletin of the National Science Museum. Series A, Zoology (ISSN:03852423)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.14, no.3, pp.151-158, 1988-09

A new subspecies of the least red-toothed shrew, Sorex minutissimus ZIMMERMANN, 1780,is described from Korea under the name of S. m. ishikawai. It is the largest subspecies of the species, and seems closest to the Hokkaido subspecies, S. m. hawkeri THOMAS, 1906.
著者
吉行 瑞子
出版者
国立科学博物館
雑誌
Bulletin of the National Science Museum. Series A, Zoology (ISSN:03852423)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.14, no.4, pp.215-222, 1988-12
被引用文献数
3

Euroscaptor klossi THOMAS, a little known mole of Thailand, is re-described on a dead specimen from Mt. Doi Inthanon. Its pelvic and manual bones are described for the first time. Relationship of Asiatic moles is discussed.
著者
Hill J.E. 吉行 瑞子
出版者
国立科学博物館
雑誌
Bulletin of the National Science Museum. Series A, Zoology (ISSN:03852423)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.6, no.3, pp.179-189, 1980-09
被引用文献数
1

A new species of Rhinolophus from Iriomote Island, Yayeyama Islands, south Ryukyu Islands is diagnosed and described as R. imaizumii, closely related to R. cognatus from the Andaman Islands. The Asiatic species of the R. pusillus group to which it belongs are keyed and briefly discussed, with diagnostic and distributional notes.
著者
吉行 瑞子
出版者
国立科学博物館
雑誌
Bulletin of the National Science Museum. Series A, Zoology (ISSN:03852423)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.10, no.3, pp.153-159, 1984-09

A new species of whiskered bat belonging to the subgenus Selysius is described from the forest on Petegari, Poroshiri and Rakko of the Hidaka Mountains, Hokkaido, under the name Myotis yesoensis. This species is sympatric with Myotis gracilis on these mountains. It is easily distinguished from the latter by the shorter ear, bicolored dorsal fur, and the obtuse anteorbital ridge.
著者
YOSHIYUKI Mizuko
出版者
国立科学博物館
雑誌
National Science Museum monographs (ISSN:13429574)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.7, pp.1-242, 1989

This article is a taxonomic revision of the Japanese bat fauna based on an extensive study of 4380 specimens collected from Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Rishiri I., Sado I., Oki I., Seven Is. of Izu, Tsushima Is., Goto Is., Iki I., Yakushima I., Kuchinoerabu I., Amami Is., Okinawa I., Daito Is., Kume-jima I., Ishigaki I. Iriomote I., Yonakuni I. and Ogasawara Islands. In this study, the following species concept was employed; the species is a population reproductively isolated from other similar populations, and the subsecies is a local population more or less clearly separated geographically and morphologically from the other populations of the species. Besides the external and internal features customarily used in chiropteran taxonomy at the species level, in most cases in this study such characters as the baculum, scapula, and sternum were also examined, to determine variability and the taxonomic status of the population as objectively as possible. Quantitative characters of local populations, such as mean values and standard deviations in length were compared statistically, always considering the nature of geographical trends or clines among of the population. On the other hand, in comparing of qualitative characters, special attention was paid to age variation. Where a group of local populations showed a distinct and smooth cline in an important quantitative character, then the populations within the group were recognized as members of a same species. But a local population clearly deviating from such a cline was recognized as specifically different because the population seems to be reproductively isolated from any others. By these methods, the Japanese chiropterans were divided into 44 species and subspecies, belonging to thirteen genera, five families, and two suborders. The chiropteran fauna of Japan is composed of three species of Pteropus in the family Pteropodidae of the Megachiroptera and 35 species of the Microchiroptera; five species of Rhinolophus in the family Rhinolophidae, one species of Hipposideros in the family Hipposideridae, twelve species of Myotis, five species of Pipistrellus, two species of Nyctalus, two species of Eptesicus, one species of Vespertilio, one species of Barbastella, one species of Plecotus, one species of Miniopterus and three species of Murina in the family Vespertilionidae, and one species of Tadarida in the family Molossidae. During this study following six new species were discovered from Japan, including two forms in collaboration: Rhinolophus imaizumii in the Rhinolophidae and Myotis yesoensis, pruinosus, Nyctalus furvus, Murina silvatica and M. tenebrosa in the Vespertilionidae. New localities were given to Pteropus dasymallus daitoensis, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum nippon, R. cornutus cornutus, R. c. orii, Myotis fujiensis, M gracilis, M. ikonnikovi, M. ozensis, M. daubentoni ussuriensis, Nyctalus aviator, Eptesicus nilssoni parvus, Vespertilio superans superans, Barbastella leucomelas darjelingensis, Plecotus auritus sacrimontis, Miniopterus fuscus, Miniopterus schreibersi fuliginosus, Murina silvatica, Murina hilgendorfi and Tadarida insignis. Rhinolophus imaizumii from Iriomote I. was recognized as a new species by myself and J. E. Hill of the British Museum (Natural History). I had noticed this form while studying a vast number of samples of this genus collected from Japan, and it seemed to be different from any known forms of the group including R. perditus from Ishigaki I. This was confirmed by Hill after careful comparison of samples of this form and type specimens of this group in London. An examination of about ten specimens of Myotis pruinosus proved that this is the smallest species of the subgenus Leuconoe, having the forearm as short as that of M. ikonnikovi, the smallest species of the subgenus Selysius. It is similar in general respects to M. davidi of China, but much smaller. Nyctalus furvus is a member of the noctula group, but eleven specimens of this species from Iwate Prefecture are much smaller than N. noctula of Eurasia and N. velutinus of China and have different cranial and dental characters. There was a distinct gap between furvus and the latter two species, so I recognized it as a distinct species. Murina silvatica has long been misidentified as M. aurata ussuriensis or M. ussuriensis. As a result of a comparison of about thirty specimens of silvatica from Japan, the type specimen of M. ussuriensis in the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, and M. aurata aurata from the Himalayas, the distinctness of silvatica became evident, so it was given a new name. Murina tenebrosa from Tsushima Is., is known from only one specimen. But this species is different from all other Asiatic members of the genus by the nearly naked dorsal surface of the uropatagium and intermediate dimensions of several important characters. The nearest form to this species may be M. florium of Flores I. The recently described Myotis yesoensis of the subgenus Selysius is a medium-sized form similar to M. hosonoi of Honshu in general features. This species is known from several localities in the Hidaka Mountains, Hokkaido, and was found together with M gracilis in a forest on Mt. Petegari, the type locality. It differs from gracilis in its shorter ear and in several important cranial and dental characters. It is larger but has a relatively shorter tail than M. ikonnikovi of the same subgenus, known from Nakano-shima I., Toya Lake, but has a shorter tail. The coefficient of difference in the length of tail between these two forms is remarkable. All of the forms known from Japan are described in order of family, genus, species, and subspecies, from primitive to advanced. Keys are given to all families and genera and to species in polytypic genera. The description of each species or subspecies contains detailed features of the skull and teeth, and in most cases covers also the features of the body skeleton and baculum which have not been fully described. The taxonomic status of each form is also fully discussed. The Japanese mainland region consisting of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, the Ryukyu region, and the Ogasawara region differ remarkably from each other in their species composition of bats. The Japanese mainland region, belonging to the north eastern Chinese subregion of the Palaearctic region,. has many species common to Eurasia but also several peculiar to the region. Both the Ryukyu region belonging to the Indo-Chinese subregion of the Oriental region, and the Ogasawara region, belonging to the Polynesian subregion of the Australian region, have only a few species, but most of them are endemic. One of the characteristic features of the Japanese chiropteran fauna is that the number of species is more numerous in the region north of the STEJNEGER line, containing Hokkaido and a half of Honshfi, than in the region south of the line, contrary to the tendency seen in continental Asia.
著者
MAGANE Mitsuo ITABASHI Naoshi NISHIWAKI Nobuki GOTO Toshio YAMADA Chikashi HIROTA Eizi
出版者
社団法人応用物理学会
雑誌
Japanese journal of applied physics. Pt. 2, Letters (ISSN:00214922)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.29, no.5, pp.L829-L832, 1990-05-20
被引用文献数
2 31

Infrared diode laser absorption spectroscopy (IRLAS) was established as the measurement method for the CF radical density. The absolute density of the CF radical and its pressure dependences were measured in DC pulsed CF_4/H_2 discharge plasma. Moreover, from the analysis of the decay parts of the observed transient absorption waveforms of the CF radical, the CF radical was shown to be removed mainly by a diffusion process in the present plasma, yielding the diffusion coefficients D(CF in H_2) and D(CF in CF_4).
著者
吉行 瑞子
出版者
国立科学博物館
雑誌
国立科学博物館専報 (ISSN:00824755)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.21, pp.189-197, 1988

北海道の西南方, 奥尻島に生息する野生ほ乳類としては, これまで, ネズミ科のエゾアカネズミApodemus speciosus ainu (THOMAS, 1906)しか記録がなかった。このたび, イヌ科のタヌキNyctereutes procyonoides GRAY, 184 1834が採集された。この島から初めての記録である。筆者は奥尻島のタヌキが北海道, 本州, 九州の個体群のどれに類似しているか, 外部, 頭骨, 肩甲骨, 仙椎, 陰茎骨などの形態を用いて, 分類学的に比較検討した。奥尻島個体群は, その冬毛の背毛長が平均87.8mm, 宮崎の個体群のそれは54.3mmで, 両者の間に顕著な差異が認められる。それだけでなく, 頭骨では上顎第1臼歯間の距離(歯冠部の内端間の最短距離)が本州, 宮崎産のものより大きい。この形質における奥尻個体群と北海道, 本州, 九州の8個体群間の差異係数について類似関係を求めた結果, それらが2群を形成することが判明した。I群には奥尻島および北海道個体群が含まれ, II群には本州と九州の7個体群が含まれる。I群とII群間の差異係数は1.331である。 また, 奥尻島・北海道個体群は本州・九州の個体群より仙骨が顕著に長く, 頑丈である。これらの形質は年齢や雌雄による変異が少いと考えられる。陰茎骨には年齢よる顕著な差が認められるが, 同年齢とおもわれる奥尻島と宮崎のものの陰茎骨では, 奥尻島のもので発達が悪いことが認められた。また, 仙椎の大きさは年齢や性による変異が少ないようにおもわれたので, 奥尻島のものと本州や宮崎のものと比較したところ, 前者が顕著に大きい傾向がみられた。これらの肩甲骨は年齢による変異が顕著であるが, たがいによく似ている。 以上の結果, 奥尻島の個体群は, 北海道のエゾタヌキNyctereutes procyonoides albus BEARD, 1904と同じ分類群に属すると認めるのが妥当と考えられる。エゾタヌキはニューヨークの動物園で飼育されていた白色型の生きた個体に基づいて命名されたもので, 基準標本の指定がなく, その所在も明確ではない。
著者
吉行 瑞子
出版者
日本哺乳類学会
雑誌
哺乳類科学 (ISSN:0385437X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.47, no.2, pp.271-273, 2007-12
著者
吉行 瑞子 林 良恭 水澤 孝
出版者
農大動物研究会
雑誌
Animate (ISSN:13451987)
巻号頁・発行日
no.8, pp.1-10,図巻頭2p,中付1枚, 2010-03
著者
千葉 恵
出版者
日本西洋古典学会
雑誌
西洋古典學研究 (ISSN:04479114)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.42, pp.47-56, 1994-03-28

I offer an interpretation, mainly on the basis of Physics II 9, of Aristotle's claim in his biological writings that explanation by necessity involving only material and efficient causes is consistent with an explanation of the same phenomena by purpose. My argument is directed towards the further question of whether Aristotle also believes that while the essences of certain biological phenomena are partly determined by their role in a teleological system, there is a complete account in terms of material and efficient causation of the conditions under which they exist. Physics II 9 presupposes his argument for the final cause as the nature in the primary sense in II 8, and is similar in theme to Parts of Animals 1 1 where Aristotle criticises the physiologoi on the ground that when they claimed that biological phenomena come into being by necessity, they fail to distinguish what kind of necessity is involved. At the beginning of II 9, Aristotle considers two alternative ways of understanding the necessity involved in generation ; either hypothetical necessity(HN) or HN plus simple necessity(SN). HN depends on a goal. If the goal is to be, it is necessary that certain other things come to be. SN, by contrast, depends on the nature of simple bodies and their movements. Aristotle locates the SN which the physiologoi take as the main cause of generation as a "necessary nature" (200a8) and regards this as explanatory of the goal, only insofar as the latter is purely materially specified as the matter of the goal(ω&b.sigmav; δι υλην). The goal taken as its matter is simply necessitated by its material components in the sense that the material components yield a specified condition for the existence of the goal. Thus Aristotle expresses two modes of necessity involved in generation as follows ; "The necessity, then, is on a hypothesis, but isn't necessary as the same way the goal(ω&b.sigmav; τελο&b.sigmav;) is necessary. For in the latter case the necessity lies in the matter, but in the former case the purpose lies in the λογο&b.sigmav; (account as design)." (200a13ff) Aristotle confirms the two modes of necessity in comparison with a mathematical reasoning. He compares both (1) "things which come to be based on nature(κατα <φυσιν)"(200a16) and (2) "things which come to be for something" (al9) with the necessity involved in a specific mathematical proof : given that the straight is thus and so, necessarily the triangle has angles whose sum is two right angles. While (1) is wider than (2) in terms of their extensions, they differ from each other in that the necessity involved in (1) is determined by the nature of underlying(υποκειμενομ), but the necessity involved in (2) is determined by goal. Aristotle defines nature in "κατα φυσιν" in (1) as a certain underlying based on simple bodies which have "natural tendency for change" (ορμη 192b18 cf. 95 al, 276a26) for both "substances" which "have a nature"(192b33) as formal or final cause and "their per se components" (cf. 73a34ff)which "do not have a nature" (193 a1) specified above as moving upwards belongs to fire. In that mathematical reasoning, the premises or components of the conclusion determine the necessity of the conclusion. This is said to be "in a parallel fashion" (200a16) with the case in (1). On the other hand, it is said to be "in a reversed fashion"(a19) with case in (2) in the sense that the goal which is achieved at the end of generation determines the necessity of the antecedent which comes no doubt earlier than the end. In this way, these two modes of necessity in generation are indirectly compared with each other via an example of mathematics. I conclude that while the purpose as design at the level of Adyoc determines what kind of matter should be employed in generation "as matter of λογο&b.sigmav; (200b8) , matter at the level of generation necessarily generates the matter of a goal by its own power, according to the program which is laid as design at the level of λογο&b.sigmav;. This allows us to say eg. eyeball and optic nerve etc. are an eye by themselves for the sake of seeing(cf. 1041a26). By distinguishing the level of λογο&b.sigmav; in which the purpose lies from the level of generation in which material necessity lies, Aristotle sets up the compatibility between teleological explanation of biological phenomena and explanation by material necessity in which both HN and SN lie.
著者
千葉 恵
出版者
慶應義塾大学
雑誌
哲學 (ISSN:05632099)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.75, pp.19-45, 1982

In the first book of Physics, which is said to belong to his early Academia period, Aristotle investigates the principles of change in general - matter, privation and form. The most important of his discoveries in that book is, it seems, the concept of matter analysed in terms of the underlying thing (substratum) of change; the thing underlying is the terminus a quo and the thing constituted is the terminus ad quem of change. The relation of both termini consists in the fact that matter is the proximate cause of the thing constituted, such as bronze becoming a statue and wood becoming a bed, so that an analogy is found in the relation between the matter qua terminus a quo and the thing constituted qua terminus ad quem as between bronze and statue, wood and bed, and so on. It follows that Aristotle devised at first the concept of matter in relation to the thing constituted, not in relation to the formal cause as seen in later writings, for matter is consistently. in Physics, A the proximate cause of the thing constituted, and not in such a way that prime matter is claimed to be the ultimate cause of all things as many commentators interpret the text.