Yoshiaki KAI
@yoshiakikai.bsky.social
Fish biologist, Kyoto University
Reposted by Yoshiaki KAI
#NewSpecies!
New bandfish from #taiwan just swam in:
Owstonia smithvanizi
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/8C6C0704-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #OwstoniaSmithvanizi
#FAIRdata
#OA #ecology #biodiversity #nature #conservation #animals #fish #fishfriday #ichthyology #bandfish
New bandfish from #taiwan just swam in:
Owstonia smithvanizi
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/8C6C0704-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #OwstoniaSmithvanizi
#FAIRdata
#OA #ecology #biodiversity #nature #conservation #animals #fish #fishfriday #ichthyology #bandfish
December 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
#NewSpecies!
New bandfish from #taiwan just swam in:
Owstonia smithvanizi
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/8C6C0704-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #OwstoniaSmithvanizi
#FAIRdata
#OA #ecology #biodiversity #nature #conservation #animals #fish #fishfriday #ichthyology #bandfish
New bandfish from #taiwan just swam in:
Owstonia smithvanizi
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/8C6C0704-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #OwstoniaSmithvanizi
#FAIRdata
#OA #ecology #biodiversity #nature #conservation #animals #fish #fishfriday #ichthyology #bandfish
電気と臀鰭、追記と対鰭、変換をよく間違える。またメールでやってしまった。
December 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
電気と臀鰭、追記と対鰭、変換をよく間違える。またメールでやってしまった。
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Hot minnow news! @akpinion.bsky.social and team have FOUR new sand shiners. Tour de force combining morphology and molecules. 56 pages of dense cyprinid science!
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vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1560...
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vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1560...
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Hot minnow news! @akpinion.bsky.social and team have FOUR new sand shiners. Tour de force combining morphology and molecules. 56 pages of dense cyprinid science!
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vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1560...
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vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1560...
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Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.
煮干し用の小魚が獲れないね、という話を聞く。それを餌にするツバスやカマスの成長も遅めな気はする。
December 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
煮干し用の小魚が獲れないね、という話を聞く。それを餌にするツバスやカマスの成長も遅めな気はする。
Reposted by Yoshiaki KAI
Shin-Ichiro (Ichiro) Matsuzaki
Input from new study.
Inoue et a. 2025. eDNAmap: A Metabarcoding Web Tool for Comparing Marine Biodiversity, With Special Reference to Teleost Fish. Molecular Ecology Resources
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Input from new study.
Inoue et a. 2025. eDNAmap: A Metabarcoding Web Tool for Comparing Marine Biodiversity, With Special Reference to Teleost Fish. Molecular Ecology Resources
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
eDNAmap: A Metabarcoding Web Tool for Comparing Marine Biodiversity, With Special Reference to Teleost Fish
Marine environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding data are beginning to accumulate, even for remote and poorly studied areas, such as marine environments. These data enable us to identify distributions o...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Shin-Ichiro (Ichiro) Matsuzaki
Input from new study.
Inoue et a. 2025. eDNAmap: A Metabarcoding Web Tool for Comparing Marine Biodiversity, With Special Reference to Teleost Fish. Molecular Ecology Resources
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Input from new study.
Inoue et a. 2025. eDNAmap: A Metabarcoding Web Tool for Comparing Marine Biodiversity, With Special Reference to Teleost Fish. Molecular Ecology Resources
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Out late for #FossilFriday, it's our invited @annualreviews.bsky.social paper with @sarahlsheffield.bsky.social and @bigfacecats.bsky.social on why Phylogenetic Paleoecology is useful and how to do it.
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
A Practical Guide to Phylogenetic Paleoecology
The burgeoning field of phylogenetic paleoecology combines paleoecological data with hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships to tease apart the roles that ecology and relatedness both play in the evo...
doi.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Out late for #FossilFriday, it's our invited @annualreviews.bsky.social paper with @sarahlsheffield.bsky.social and @bigfacecats.bsky.social on why Phylogenetic Paleoecology is useful and how to do it.
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
コロナ禍以降でははじめてのフルでのライブでした。なかなか時間が取れなくてこの数週間はちょい無理をした感が。
November 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
コロナ禍以降でははじめてのフルでのライブでした。なかなか時間が取れなくてこの数週間はちょい無理をした感が。
Reposted by Yoshiaki KAI
What's that? You didn't know boxfish made sound? Me neither...
It turns out all species (Atlantic & Pacific) do, yet little is known about how this evolved. A novel structure found only in the Atlantic species offered the answer, but it isn't quite what you think...🌍 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/biol...
It turns out all species (Atlantic & Pacific) do, yet little is known about how this evolved. A novel structure found only in the Atlantic species offered the answer, but it isn't quite what you think...🌍 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/biol...
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
What's that? You didn't know boxfish made sound? Me neither...
It turns out all species (Atlantic & Pacific) do, yet little is known about how this evolved. A novel structure found only in the Atlantic species offered the answer, but it isn't quite what you think...🌍 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/biol...
It turns out all species (Atlantic & Pacific) do, yet little is known about how this evolved. A novel structure found only in the Atlantic species offered the answer, but it isn't quite what you think...🌍 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/biol...
漁協だよりの原稿を書き書き。もう新年の挨拶、早い…。正月だし今回はタイのなかま。
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
漁協だよりの原稿を書き書き。もう新年の挨拶、早い…。正月だし今回はタイのなかま。
来月に来る予定だった某国の研究者が謎の理由でキャンセルしてきて闇。学会でもちらほらそう言うのを聞いたな…。
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
来月に来る予定だった某国の研究者が謎の理由でキャンセルしてきて闇。学会でもちらほらそう言うのを聞いたな…。
カイワリがそれなりにあがってるけどノエは全くいない。さすが日本海。
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
カイワリがそれなりにあがってるけどノエは全くいない。さすが日本海。
今年の冬は極めて普通な気がしてきた。
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
今年の冬は極めて普通な気がしてきた。
共著論文が出ました。イブシクラノセナメハダカ。長いな。Stemonosudis fumea, a new barracudina (Aulopiformes: Paralepididae) from Japan, with taxonomic comments on the Stemonosudis rothschildi species complex
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Stemonosudis fumea, a new barracudina (Aulopiformes: Paralepididae) from Japan, with taxonomic comments on the Stemonosudis rothschildi species complex - Ichthyological Research
A new barracudina, Stemonosudis fumea, is described on the basis of 12 specimens [78.7–235.2 mm in standard length (SL)], collected from Japan and adjacent waters. This new species belongs to the Stem...
link.springer.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
共著論文が出ました。イブシクラノセナメハダカ。長いな。Stemonosudis fumea, a new barracudina (Aulopiformes: Paralepididae) from Japan, with taxonomic comments on the Stemonosudis rothschildi species complex
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A few fishes from Hawaii....
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A few fishes from Hawaii....
伊右衛門カフェで食べてしまった…。
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
伊右衛門カフェで食べてしまった…。
魚類学会、ダンゴウオみたいな種の3Dプリンタ出力は見てもらえたでしょうか？
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
魚類学会、ダンゴウオみたいな種の3Dプリンタ出力は見てもらえたでしょうか？
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今週21日から開催される日本魚類学会年会（in 東京海洋大学）の講演要旨集に、3D画像解析ソフトウェア MolcerPlus の広告を掲載しました。
X線CT撮影から画像解析・模型作成まで、すべて弊社にお任せください。
それから、22日からの企業展示にも出展いたします。
学会参加者のみなさま、ぜひいらしてください。
X線CT撮影から画像解析・模型作成まで、すべて弊社にお任せください。
それから、22日からの企業展示にも出展いたします。
学会参加者のみなさま、ぜひいらしてください。
November 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
今週21日から開催される日本魚類学会年会（in 東京海洋大学）の講演要旨集に、3D画像解析ソフトウェア MolcerPlus の広告を掲載しました。
X線CT撮影から画像解析・模型作成まで、すべて弊社にお任せください。
それから、22日からの企業展示にも出展いたします。
学会参加者のみなさま、ぜひいらしてください。
X線CT撮影から画像解析・模型作成まで、すべて弊社にお任せください。
それから、22日からの企業展示にも出展いたします。
学会参加者のみなさま、ぜひいらしてください。
今日は休みをとっていろいろ。冬用タイヤも履いた。みなさん学会楽しんで〜。
November 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
今日は休みをとっていろいろ。冬用タイヤも履いた。みなさん学会楽しんで〜。
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Great video highlighting the value of natural history collections and the importance of preserving them for generations to come
The Library of Life - Dahiana Arcila, Ricardo Betancur-R., Ben Frable
YouTube video by FishEvolutionLab-Edu
youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Great video highlighting the value of natural history collections and the importance of preserving them for generations to come
Reposted by Yoshiaki KAI
Hybridization but minimal introgression: ecologically-based divergent selection maintains a steep hybrid zone in parapatric stickleback fish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688987v1
November 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hybridization but minimal introgression: ecologically-based divergent selection maintains a steep hybrid zone in parapatric stickleback fish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688987v1
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Very excited to share my exploration of the phylogenetics of early ray-finned fishes, out today in the Anatomical Record! Really busy day but I’ll have more info shortly.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
An ontological morphological phylogenetic framework for living and extinct ray‐finned fishes (Actinopterygii)
The ray-finned fishes include one out of every two species of living vertebrates on Earth and have an abundant fossil record stretching 380 million years into the past. The division of systematic kno...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Very excited to share my exploration of the phylogenetics of early ray-finned fishes, out today in the Anatomical Record! Really busy day but I’ll have more info shortly.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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This study presents the first records of the broad-tail stingray, 𝐵𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑦𝑡𝑜𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎, in the East China Sea, significantly extending its known distribution in the Northwest Pacific.
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/zse....
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/zse....
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This study presents the first records of the broad-tail stingray, 𝐵𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑦𝑡𝑜𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎, in the East China Sea, significantly extending its known distribution in the Northwest Pacific.
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/zse....
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/zse....