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KUNIO AMAOKA

amaoka@fish.hokudai.ac.jp

TITLE:

    Professor, Laboratory of Marine Zoology, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Hokkaido 041, Japan.

EDUCATION:

    B.A., biology, Faculty of Literature and Science, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan, 1959.

    M.S., agriculture, Kyoto University, Maizuru, Kyoto, Japan, 1962.

    Ph.D., agriculture, Kyoto University, Maizuru, Kyoto, Japan, 1967.

POSITIONS:

    Research Associate, Ichthyology, Shimonoseki University of Fisheries, Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan, 1966-1971.

    Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Marine Zoology, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, 1971-1974.

    Associate Professor, Laboratory of Marine Zoology, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, 1974-1984.

    Professor, Laboratory of Marine Zoology, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, 1984-present.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

    Ichthyological Society of Japan, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries, Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, Zoological Society of Japan.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

    Extensive field work throughout Japan, especially the northern island of Hokkaido, since the early 1960s; overseas collecting expeditions include the following: freshwater and marine fishes of Argentina, 1986; two field seas ons collecting fishes in New Caledonia and New Zealand, particularly early life history stages, 1988, 1992; fishes of Taiwan, 1990; freshwater fishes of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, U.S.A., 1993.

PUBLICATIONS:

    Since 1962, 72 scientific publications on the systematics, distribution, early life history of fishes.

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

  • AMAOKA, K., K. Nakaya, and H. Yamamoto. 1983. Fishes and Marine Algae of Northern Japan. Kitanihon Kaiyo Center Co., Ltd., 371 pp.

  • Yamamoto, E., A. Goto, K. Nakaya, and K. AMAOKA. 1988. Aquatic insect fauna and feeding habits of two Cottus species in the Daitobetsu River. Bull. Fac. Fish., Hokkaido Univ., 39(4): 237-256.

  • AMAOKA, K., K. Nakaya, and M. Yabe. 1989. Fishes of Usujiri and adjacent waters in southern Hokkaido, Japan. Bull. Fac. Fish., Hokkaido Univ., 40(4): 254-277.

  • AMAOKA, K., and J. Rivaton. 1991. A review of the genus Tosarhombus (Pleuronectiformes, Bothidae), with descriptions of two new species from the Chesterfield Islands (Coral Sea). In: Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM. Mem. Mus. Nat. His t. Nat., A, 151: 449-466.

  • AMAOKA, K., E. Mihara, and J. Rivaton. In Press. Flatfishes from the waters around New Caledonia. A revision of the genus Engyprosopon. In: Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM. Mem. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat.


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