2025 Publications

Articles (Refereed)

• Hu, Y., Wang, X., Wu, Y., Motokawa, M., Yu, W. 2025. Revisiting the taxonomy and distribution of Miniopterus (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) bats in China based on an integrated molecular-ecological-morphological approach. Zoological Research: Diversity and Conservation. 2(1): 12–30 DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2097-3772.2024.019
• Ikeda, S., Imada, Y., Nakano, T. 2025. A new species of Eustigmaeus (Prostigmata: Stigmaeidae) and the first records of two congeners, E. pseudolacunus and E. rhodomelus, from Japan. Systematics and Applied Acarology. 30(4): 664–680 DOI: 10.11158/saa.30.4.3
• Kurita, K., Hikida, T. 2025. A taxonomic revision of the Barbour’s blue-tailed skink Plestiodon barbouri (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae), with decsiptions of three new species. Species Diversity. 30(2): 259–287 DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.30.259
• Matsushita, E., Ihara, Y., Nakano, T. 2025. A new species of the genus Cybaeus (Araneae: Cybaeidae) from a cave in northeastern central Honshu, Japan. Species Diversity. 30(1): 49–54 DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.30.49
• Nakano, T. 2025. Two new sexannulate species of Orobdella (Hirudinea: Erpobdelliformes: Orobdellidae) from Kyushu, Japan. Edaphologia. (116): 1–16
• Nakano, T., Ihara, Y. 2025. On the phylogenetic position of the subterranean Cybaeus eremospelyngus (Cybaeidae) from Osawa-shonyudo Cave, Japan. Acta Arachnologica. 74(2): 129–130 DOI: 10.2476/asjaa.74.129
• Nakano, T., Lai, Y.-T. 2025. A new small-sized species of Orobdella (Hirudinea: Erpobdelliformes: Orobdellidae) from Mount Hehuan, central Taiwan. Species Diversity. 30(2): 127–134 DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.30.127
• Nakano, T., Ogawa, G., Mori, K., Hatanaka, Y., Koike, N., Sugawara, Y. 2025. Two new species of the Cybaeus hiroshimaensis-group (Araneae: Cybaeidae) from the northern Hida Mountains, Japan. Soil Organisms. 97(3): 317–326 DOI: 10.25674/461
• Sawada, N. 2025. Historical species richness of Semisulcospira (Caenogastropoda: Semisulcospiridae) in former water bodies of the Lake Biwa system, Japan. Molluscan Research. 45(1): 51–57 DOI: 10.1080/13235818.2024.2433941
• Sawada, N., Fuke, Y., Miura, O. 2025. Integrative taxonomy of Semisulcospira kurodai (Mollusca, Semisulcospiridae) with insights into its geographic variation and description of three new species from Japan. Systematics and Biodiversity. 23(1): 2436684 DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2024.2436684
• Sawada, N., Toyama, T., Miyai, T., Kurozumi, T. 2025. Rediscovery of introduced Korean Semisulcospira from Lake Sotonasakaura, Japan and implication for its identity (Mollusca: Gastropoda). BioInvasions Records. 14(1): 67–77 DOI: 10.3391/bir.2025.14.1.07
• Ikeda, Y., Yamagata, T., Bawm, S., Thwe, T., Myat Zaw, K.M., Motokawa, M., Ohdachi, S.D. 2025. Skull shape differences among Myanmar and adjacent populations of the house shrew, Suncus murinus (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla): Insights into allometry and phylogenetic variances using geometric morphometrics. Mammal Study. 52(1): 27–38 DOI: 10.3106/ms2023-0071
• Kambayashi, C., Nakano, T. 2025. First record of the freshwater leech Hemiclepsis schrencki Bolotov, Klass, Bespalaya, Konopleva, Kondakov & Vikhrev, 2019 (Hirudinea, Glossiphoniidae) in Hokkaido, Japan. Check List. 21(4): 744–749 DOI: 10.15560/21.4.744
• Liu, K., Li, Q., Wu, H., Lin, Y., Li. H., Nakano, T., Liu, Z. 2025. A new genus and species of cave-dwelling leech from China in the family Salifidae: taxonomy, phylogeny, and mitochondrial genome characterization. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 101(4): 2123–2132 DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.168628
• Pimsai, A., Ikeda, Y.,Okabe, S., Motokawa, M. 2025. Phylogeography of multiple lineages of black rats Rattus rattus Complex (Mammalia: Rodentia: Muridae) in Peninsular Thailand. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 18(4): 787–797 DOI: 10.1016/j.japb.2025.02.003
• Tang, Y., Liu, Z., Xiang, H, Li, L., Li, S., Zou, Y., Nakano, T. 2025. A new genus of non-bloodsucking aquatic cave leeches in the family Salifidae Johansson, 1909 (Erpobdelliformes) from the Wuling Mountains of Central China. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 101(3): 1113–1122 DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.152740
• Yin, Z., Liao, J., Li, L., Xiang, H., Xiang, D., Liu, Z., Nakano, T. 2025. A new species of Odontobdella Oka, 1923 (Erpobdelliformes, Salifidae), a macrophagous terrestrial leech from Central China. Zootaxa. 5566(1): 159–172 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5566.1.7

Articles (Not Refereed)

• 小泉有希 2025. 東アジアのスベトカゲ属がおもしろい. Caudata. (7): 12–16
• 中野隆文 2025. 総合博物館コレクション研究〈23〉移管された標本群に眠る無脊椎動物のタイプ標本たち. 京都大学総合博物館ニュースレター. (63): 4–5
• 岡本卓 2025.「トカゲ」概説. Caudata. (7): 2–7

Books

• 一般社団法人 日本哺乳類学会 (編) 本川雅治 (編集委員長) 哺乳類学の百科事典. 丸善出版株式会社, 東京.

Book Chapters

• 本川雅治 2025. 学名と和名. In: 一般社団法人 日本哺乳類学会 (編) 哺乳類学の百科事典. 丸善出版株式会社, 東京. Pp. 30–31
• 本川雅治 2025. 日本の哺乳類. In: 一般社団法人 日本哺乳類学会 (編) 哺乳類学の百科事典. 丸善出版株式会社, 東京. Pp. 98–99

Miscellaneous

• 小泉有希 2025. 子ども博物館爬虫類のお話. In: 京都大学子ども博物館事務局 (編) 京都大学「子ども博物館」活動報告 2004–2024. 京都大学子ども博物館事務局，京都. P. 16