Taku Okamoto

Taku Okamoto, Japanese herpetologist

• Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
• Invasive Species Research Team, Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 2 taxon names authored by Taku Okamoto

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2012

• Okamoto, T. & Hikida, T. 2012. A new cryptic species allied to Plestiodon japonicus (Peters, 1864) (Squamata: Scincidae) from eastern Japan, and diagnoses of the new species and two parapatric congeners based on morphology and DNA barcode. Zootaxa 3436(1): 1–23. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3436.1.1 Reference page. 

2017

• Kurita, K., Nakamura, Y., Okamoto, T., Lin, S-M. & Hikida, T. 2017. Taxonomic reassessment of two subspecies of Chinese skink in Taiwan based on morphological and molecular investigations (Squamata, Scincidae). ZooKeys 687: 131–148. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.687.12742 Reference page. 

2021

• Riyanto, A.,Fauzi, M.A., Sidik, I., Mumpuni, Irham, M., Kurniawan, N., Ota, H., Okamoto, T., Hikida, T. & Grismer, L.L. 2021. Another New Bent-toed Gecko, genus Cyrtodactylus Gray 1837 (Squamata: Gekkonidae), from Borneo. Zootaxa 5026(2): 286–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5026.2.8. Reference page. 

Authority control

ZooBank: D0793830-5A0B-4232-83B4-9515B7DC2294