HARUO KATAKURA

TITLE:

Associate Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

EDUCATION:

B.S., Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, 1970.

M.S., Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, 1973.

Ph.D., Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, 1980.

POSITIONS:

Research Fellow, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, 1978-1982.

Lecturer, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, 1983-1988.

Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, 1988-1993.

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, 1993-present.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Two field seasons, 1990 and 1991, collecting freshwater and terrestrial invertebrates in West Java (Bogor and Cibodas) and Sumatra (Padang and vicinity); numerous collecting trips throughout northern Japan since 1979.

PUBLICATIONS:

Since 1973, 47 scientific publications on the taxonomy, phylogeny, distribution, ecology, reproductive biology, and food habits of insects and freshwater and terrestrial mollusks.

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

• KATAKURA, H., Y. Kuwahara, and T. Udagawa. 1990. Geographical variations of shell morphology in the land snail Ainohelix editha: a review of factual evidence. Jour. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ., Zool., 25: 118-129.

• Ohtaka, A., S. F. Mawatari, and H. KATAKURA. 1990. Morphological and habitat differences between two forms of Japanese Limnodrilus. Jour. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ., Zool., 25: 106-117.

• Kuwahara, Y., and H. KATAKURA. 1992. The land mollusks of Hokkaido. Part 1. Hokkaido no Shizen to Seibutsu, 6: 34-81.

• KATAKURA, H., Y. Kuwahara, and T. Udagawa. 1993. Geographical variation of the land snail Ainohelix editha. Hokkaido no Shizen to Seibutsu, 7: 20-27.

• Kuwahara, Y., and H. KATAKURA. In Press. The land mollusks of Hokkaido. Part 2. Hokkaido no Shizen to Seibutsu.