Nonaka M, Hanahara N, Kakui K. 2023. A New Species of Coralliidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) Collected from Eastern Japan. Species Diversity, 28: 231-243.
Hanahara N. 2023. Cryptic diversity of Eviota (Teleostei: Gobiidae) and their habitat use in the shallow waters of Okinawa Island. Marine Biodiversity, 61.
Oka S, Nozu R, Miyamoto K, Tomita T, Hanahara N, Yamauchi C, Sasai T, Nakamura M. 2023. A trial to control invasive Mozambique tilapia populations using the sterile-male release technique in the artificial ponds on Okinawa. The Biological Magazine Okinawa, 61: 1–12.
Hanahara N, Tanimoto M, Shirakawa N. 2022 Kyonemichthys rumengani (Teleostei: Syngnathidae) is Sister Taxon to the Pipefish Genus Urocampus: Genetic and Morphological Evidence. Species Diversity, 27: 293–299.
Maeda K, Hanahara N, Uehara M, & Tachihara K. 2022 Larval study revealed diversity and life‐history traits of crypto‐benthic eel gobies. Journal of Fish Biology, 101: 1411–1427.
Miyamoto K, Matsunuma M, Takano H, Hanahara N, Matsuzaki S. 2021. Second record of Minous groeneveldi Matsunuma & Motomura, 2018 (Synanceiidae: Minoinae) based on an aquarium-held individual collected from Okinawa-jima Island, southern Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana. 59: 51–56
Hanahara N, Miyamoto K, Oka S. 2021. Northernmost record of the surgeonfish Acanthurus nigros (Teleostei: Acanthuridae) from Minamidaitojima Island, southern Japan. Species Diversity. 26: 43–47.
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Kobayashi N, Ozawa S, Hanahara N, Tokutake K, Kaneshi T, Inoue K, Okabe H, Miyamoto K, Ueda K. 2021. The first record of a Longman’s beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus) newborn neonate found on Miyako Island, Okinawa, Japan. Marine Biodiversity Records. 14:4.
Hanahara N, Miyamoto K, Oka S. 2020. Morphological and genetic identification of formalin-fixed gobioid larvae and description of postflexion larvae of Paragunnellichthys sp. and Ctenogobiops feroculus. Ichthyological Research. 68: 182–190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-020-00769-z
Oka S, Doi H, Miyamoto K, Hanahara N, Sado T, Miya M. 2020. Environmental DNA metabarcoding for biodiversity monitoring of a highly diverse tropical fish community in a coral reef lagoon: Estimation of species richness and detection of habitat segregation. Environmental DNA. in press (online available). doi: 10.1002/edn3.132
Hanahara N, Higashiji T, Shinzato C, Koyanagi R, Maeda K. 2019. First record of Larsonella pumilus (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Japan, with phylogenetic placement of the genus Larsonella. Zootaxa. 4695: 367-377. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4695.4.4
Tomita T, Toma H, Murakumo K, Yanagisawa M, Yano N, Oka S, Miyamoto K, Hanahara N, Sato K. 2018. Captive Birth of Tiger Shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) Revealed the Shift of Respiratory Mode Across Parturition. Copeia. 106: 292-296.
Oka S, Hanahara N, Shintani T. 2018. First Japanese record of the Mindoro snake eel Lamnostoma mindorum (Actinopterygii: Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the Ryukyu Islands. Fauna Ryukyuana. 42: 5-8.
Kondo M, Maeda K, Yamasaki N, Tachihara K. 2012. Spawning habitat and early development of Luciogobius ryukyuensis (Gobiidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes. 95: 291-300.
Yamasaki N, Kondo M, Maeda K, Tachihara K. 2011. Reproductive biology of three amphidromous gobies, Sicyopterus japonicus, Awaous melanocephalus, and Stenogobius sp., on Okinawa Island. Cybium. 35: 345-359.
Maeda K, Yamasaki N, Kondo M, Tachihara K. 2008. Reproductive biology and early development of two species of sleeper, Eleotris acanthopoma and Eleotris fusca (Teleostei: Eleotridae). Pacific Science. 62: 323-336.
Maeda K, Yamasaki N, Kondo M, Tachihara K. 2008. Occurrence and morphology of larvae and juveniles of six Luciogobius species from Aritsu Beach, Okinawa Island. 55: 162-174.
Yamasaki N, Tachihara K. 2007. Eggs and larvae of Awaous melanocephalus (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyological Research. 54: 89-91.
Maeda K, Yamasaki N, Tachihara K. 2007. Size and age at recruitment and spawning season of sleeper, genus Eleotris (Teleostei : Eleotridae) on Okinawa Island, southern Japan. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 14: 199-207.
Yamasaki N, Maeda K, Tachihara K. 2007. Morphology at recruitment and pelagic larval duration of Stiphodon percnopterygionus (Gobiidae: Sicydiinae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 14: 209-214.
Yamasaki N, Tachihara K. 2006. Reproductive biology and morphology of eggs and larvae of Stiphodon percnopterygionus (Gobiidae: Sicydiinae) collected from Okinawa Island. Ichthyological Research. 53: 13-18.