MAMORU YABE

TITLE:

Associate Professor, Laboratory of Physiology, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Hokkaido 041, Japan.

EDUCATION:

B.A., Fisheries Science, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan, 1976.

M.S., Fisheries Science, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan, 1978.

Ph.D., Fisheries Science, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan, 1984.

POSITIONS:

Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Marine Zoology, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, 1984-1992.

Associate Professor, Laboratory of Marine Zoology, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, 1992-1995.

Associate Professor, Laboratory of Physiology, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, 1995-present.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

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

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Biological Research of Ground-fish in the Bering Sea in 1978 and 1979. Biological and Fisheries Research of Benthopelagic fishes in the Micronesian Pacific region in 1988. Biological and Fisheries Research of Benthopelagic fishes in the northern North Pacific in 1991. Biological Research of endemic fishes in the Lake Baikal in 1992 and 1993. Biological Research of coastal-fish diversity in the Far-east Russia in 1994 and 1995. International Kuril Island Project in 1996 and 1999.

PUBLICATIONS:

Since 1980, 45 scientific publications on the systematics, morphology, distribution and early life history of fishes.

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

• YABE, M. 1985. Comparative osteology and myology of the superfamily Cottoidea (Pisces: Scorpaeniformes), and its phylogenetic classification. Mem. Fac. Fish. Hokkaido Univ., 32: 1-130.
• YABE, M. 1991. Bolinia euryptera, a new genus and species of sculpin (Scorpaeniformes: Cottidae) from the Bering Sea. Copeia, 1991: 329-339.
• YABE, M. 1992. A new cottid species, Porocottus coronatus, from the Pacific coast of Hokkaido, Japan. Japan. J. Ichthyol., 38: 361-366.
• YABE, M. 1995. A new species of sculpin, Zesticelus ochotensis (Scorpaeniformes: Cottidae), from the southwestern Okhotsk Sea. Japan. J. Ichthyol., 42: 17-20.
• YABE, M. and T. UYENO. 1996. Anatomical description of Normanichthys crockeri (Scorpaeniformes, incertae sedis: family Nomanichthyidae). Bull. Mar. Sci., 58(2): 494-510.