Hiroshi Yamasaki

Hiroshi Yamasaki, Japanese marine zoologist

Department of Chemistry, Biology & Marine Science, Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus, Senbaru 1, Nishihara, Nakagami, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan

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(List may be incomplete)

Yamasaki, H., Kajihara, H. & Mawatari, S.F. 2012. First report of kinorhynchs from Hokkaido, Japan, including a new species of Pycnophyes (Pycnophyidae: Homalorhagida). Zootaxa 3425: 23–41. Preview Reference page.

Yamasaki, H. & Fujimoto, S. 2014. Two new species in the Echinoderes coulli group (Echinoderidae, Cyclorhagida, Kinorhyncha) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. ZooKeys 382: 27–52. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.382.6761 . Reference page.

Yamasaki, H. 2015. Two new species of Dracoderes (Kinorhyncha: Dracoderidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with a molecular phylogeny of the genus. Zootaxa 3980(3): 359–378. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.2. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Yamasaki, H., Fujimoto, S. & Miyazaki, K. 2015. Phylogenetic position of Loricifera inferred from nearly complete 18S and 28S rRNA gene sequences. Zoological Letters 1: article 18. DOI: 10.1186/s40851-015-0017-0 . Reference page.

Sánchez, N., Yamasaki, H., Pardos, F., Sørensen, M.V., Martínez, A. 2016. Morphology disentangles the systematics of a ubiquitous but elusive meiofaunal group (Kinorhyncha: Pycnophyidae). Cladistics. 32(5): 479-505. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12143 Reference page.

Yamasaki, H., Grzelak, K., Sørensen, M.V., Neuhaus, B. & George, K.H. 2018. Echinoderes pterus sp. n. showing a geographically and bathymetrically wide distribution pattern on seamounts and on the deep-sea floor in the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida). ZooKeys 771: 15–40. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.771.25534 Reference page.
Yamasaki, H., Neuhaus, B. & George, K.H. 2018. New species of Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from Mediterranean seamounts and from the deep-sea floor in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, including notes on two undescribed species. Zootaxa 4387(3): 541–566. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4387.3.8 Reference page.

Neuhaus, B., Dal Zotto, M., Yamasaki, H. & Higgins, R.P. 2019. Revision of Condyloderes (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) including description of Condyloderes shirleyi sp. nov. Zootaxa 4561(1): 1–91. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4561.1.1 pdf Reference page.

Fujimoto, S.F., Yamasaki, H., Kimura, T., Ohtsuka, S. & Kristensen, R.M. 2020. A new genus and species of Loricifera (Nanaloricida: Pliciloricidae) from the deep waters of Japan. Marine Biodiversity 50(6): article 103. DOI: 10.1007/s12526-020-01130-3 . Reference page.