Yoshiaki Kai

Yoshiaki Kai, Japanese ichthyologist

Maizuru Fisheries Research Station, Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Nagahama, Maizuru, Kyoto 625-0086, Japan.
E-mail: mebaru@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Hibino, Y., Kai, Y. & Kimura, S. 2013. Scolecenchelys fuscogularis (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae, Myrophinae), a new worm eel from Japan. Ichthyological Research 60(1): 43–47.Reference page.

Orr, J.W., Kai, Y. & Nakabo, T., 2015: Snailfishes of the Careproctus rastrinus complex (Liparidae): redescriptions of seven species in the North Pacific Ocean region, with the description of a new species from the Beaufort Sea. Zootaxa 4018(3): 301–348. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.3.1. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Kai, Y., Ikeguchi, S., Kim, J.-K. & Nakabo, T. 2015. First Japanese record and a revised diagnosis for Dictyosoma tongyeongensis (Osteichthyes: Perciformes: Stichaeidae). Species Diversity 20(2): 107–114. DOI: 10.12782/sd.20.2.107 Reference page.

Lee, M.-Y., Munroe, T.A. & Kai, Y. 2016. Description of a new cryptic species of tonguefish (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae: Symphurus) from shallow waters off Japan. Ichthyological Research, First online: 11 July 2016. DOI: 10.1007/s10228-016-0541-8 Reference page.

Han, S-Y., Kim, J-K., Kai, Y. & Senou, H. 2017. Seahorses of the Hippocampus coronatus complex: taxonomic revision, and description of Hippocampus haema, a new species from Korea and Japan (Teleostei, Syngnathidae). ZooKeys 712: 113–139. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.712.14955. Reference page.
Lee, S.J., Kim, J-K., Kai, Y., Ikeguchi, S-i. & Nakabo, T. 2017. Taxonomic review of dwarf species of Eumicrotremus (Actinopterygii: Cottoidei: Cyclopteridae) with descriptions of two new species from the western North Pacific. Zootaxa 4282(2): 337–349. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4282.2.7. Reference page.
Stevenson, D.E., Mecklenburg, C.W. & Kai, Y. 2017. Taxonomic clarification of the Eumicrotremus asperrimus species complex (Teleostei: Cyclopteridae) in the eastern North Pacific. Zootaxa 4294(4): 419–435. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4294.4.2. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Han, S-Y., Kim, J-K., Kai, Y. & Senou, H. 2018. Corrigenda: Han S-Y, Kim J-K, Kai Y, Senou H (2017) Seahorses of the Hippocampus coronatus complex: taxonomic revision, and description of Hippocampus haema, a new species from Korea and Japan (Teleostei, Syngnathidae). ZooKeys 712: 113–139. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.712.14955. ZooKeys 753: 169-170. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.753.25599. Reference page.
Kai, Y. & Fricke, R. 2018. Taxonomic review of the deep water flathead genus Parabembras with description of the new species Parabembras multisquamata from the western Pacific Ocean (Teleostei, Parabembridae). ZooKeys 740: 59–76. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.740.21729. Reference page.

Orr, J.W., Spies, I., Stevenson, D.E., Longo, G.C., Kai, Y., Ghods, S. & Hollowed, M. 2019. Molecular phylogenetics of snailfishes (Cottoidei: Liparidae) based on MtDNA and RADseq genomic analyses, with comments on selected morphological characters. Zootaxa 4642(1): 1–79. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4642.1.1 pdf Reference page.

Kai, Y., Murasaki, K., Misawa, R., Fukui, A., Morikawa, E. & Narimatsu, Y. 2020. A new species of snailfish of the genus Paraliparis (Liparidae) from the western North Pacific, with a redescription of the poorly known species Paraliparis mandibularis. ZooKeys, 968: 143–159. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.968.56057 Reference page.
Misawa, R., Orlov, A.M., Orlova, S.Y., Gordeev, I., Ishihara, H., Hamatsu, T., Ueda, Y., Fujiwara, K., Endo, H. & Kai, Y. 2020. Bathyraja (Arctoraja) sexoculata sp. nov., a new softnose skate (Rajiformes: Arhynchobatidae) from Simushir Island, Kuril Islands (western North Pacific), with special reference to geographic variations in Bathyraja (Arctoraja) smirnovi. Zootaxa 4861(4): 515–543. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4861.4.3 Reference page.

Misawa, R., Takanashi, Y., Su, Y., Chang, C.-W., Kai, Y. 2023. First Records of the Rare Giant Roughy Hoplostethus grandperrini (Teleostei: Trachichthyiformes) from Japan. Species Diversity. 28(2): 245–253. DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.28.245 . Reference page.

Kai, Y., Morikawa, E., Misawa, R. 2024. Careproctus io (Teleostei: Liparidae), a New Snailfish from the Western North Pacific, with Comments on Generic Limits. Species Diversity. 29(1): 111–117. DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.29.111 . Reference page.