Hiroaki Karasawa

Hiroaki Karasawa Japanese carcinologist.

Mizunami Fossil Museum, Yamanouchi, Akeyo, Mizunami, Gifu, 509-6132, Japan (e-mail: GHA06103@nifty.ne.jp).

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Karasawa, H. & Kato, H. 2003. The family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura): systematics, phylogeny, and fossil records. Paleontological research 7(2): 129–151. DOI: 10.2517/prpsj.7.129 . Reference page.

Ando, Y., Ugai, H., Kawano, S., Hirose, K., Nakatani, D., Kurosu, H. & Karasawa, H. 2013. Unusual preservation of fossil mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda): occurrence of mandibles from the Pleistocene Ogushi Formation, Kyushu, Japan. Zootaxa 3691(2): 291–294. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3691.2.8 Reference page.

Karasawa, H. 2018. Mursia spiridonovi, new name for Mursia minuta Spiridonov & Apel, 2007 preoccupied by Mursia minuta Karasawa, 1993 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Calappidae). Zootaxa 4375(4): 587–587. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4375.4.8 Reference page.

Karasawa, H. 2019. Galathea nasimae, new name for Galathea keijii Tirmizi & Javed, 1993, preoccupied by Galathea keijii Karasawa, 1993 (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae). Zootaxa 4590(2): 296–296. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4590.2.7 Reference page.

Karasawa, S. 2020. Sphaerillo boninensis Nunomura, 1990 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) is a junior synonym of a pantropical species, Venezillo parvus (Budde-Lund, 1885). ZooKeys, 923: 1–14. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.923.26018 Reference page.
Karasawa, H. 2020. Cenozoic pedunculate barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) deposited in the Mizunami Fossil Museum, Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 47: 21–40. DOI: 10.50897/bmfm.47.0_21 pdf Reference page.

Karasawa, H. & Amano, K. 2022. New records for pedunculate barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) from the Miocene Higashibessho Formation in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 49: 123–127. DOI: 10.50897/bmfm.49.0_123 Reference page.
Karasawa, H. & Kobayashi, N. 2022. Cirripedes from the Middle Pleistocene Atsumi Group, Japan, with a reevaluation of the genus Adna Sowerby, 1823 (Balanoidea: Pyrgomatidae). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 49: 67–93. DOI: 10.50897/bmfm.49.0_67 Reference page.

Ng, P.K.L., Karasawa, H. & Kato, H. 2023. Arges De Haan, 1833: a senior synonym of Typhlocarcinops Rathbun, 1909 (Brachyura, Pilumnidae). Crustaceana 96(7): 703–714. DOI: 10.1163/15685403-bja10305 . Reference page.

Karasawa, H. & Kobayashi, N. 2025. Cirripedes from the Miocene Mizunami Group, central Japan, with the description of a new species of Amphibalanus Pitombo from the Iwamura Group, central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 52(1): 55––99. DOI: 10.50897/bmfm.52.1_55. Reference page.