5. Nozomi Hanahara
Okinawa Churashima Foundation RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Research on marine organisms

Research staff profile

花原　望

Nozomi Hanahara

Area of
expertise		 Ichthyology
Research
content
  • Ecology and Taxonomy of Gobioid fishes

Background

  • 2015-present: Research Scientist (Part-time Staff) at Okinawa Churashima Foundation Research Institute
  • 2011-2012: Part-time Staff at Miyakojima City Museum
  • 2007-2009: Technical Staff at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
  • 2006-2007: Part-time Staff at Okinawa Prefectural Fisheries Research and Extension Center
  • 2006: M.Sc. in Graduate School of Engineering and Science, University of the Ryukyus.

Essays and Reports

  • 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.
  • Azama Y, Oka S, Teruya M, Toshino S, Tanimoto M, Hanahara N, Kuba Y, Miyagi A, Hukuchi Y. 2023. Real-time PCR assay for detection of Environmental DNA from Chironex yamaguchii. Medical Entomology and Zoology, 74: 13–20. (in Japanese).
  • 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.
  • Oka S, Sasai T, Hanahara N, Miyamoto K, Kobayashi H, Murata N & Maeda K. 2021 Genetic traits of the weatherfish Misgurnus sp. OK on the Okinawa Islands, southern Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 59: 57–61. (in Japanese).
  • 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.
    https://doi.org/10.12782/specdiv.26.43
  • 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.
  • Miyamoto K, Oka S, Yonamine H, Agarie S, Genba H & Hanahara N. 2017. A high-density habitat and genetic characteristics of the Oriental weatherfish, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus, and the Asian swamp eel, Monopterus albus, found in Nago City, Okinawa-jima Island, southwestern Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana, 34: 15–20. (in Japanese).
  • 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, Mukai T & Tachihara K. 2011. Morphology and habitats of two gobiid species, Pandaka trimaculata and P. lidwilli, on Okinawa Island. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 58: 127–140. (in Japanese).
  • 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.

Affiliated Academic Society and Professional Memberships

  • The Ichthyological Society of Japan

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