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2022 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

Native or invasive? Biodiversity, distribution and systematics of Ostracoda (Crustacea) in Japanese rice fields

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20K06807
Research InstitutionLake Biwa Museum

Principal Investigator

Smith Robin  滋賀県立琵琶湖博物館, 研究部, 専門学芸員 (70416204)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 神谷 隆宏  金沢大学, 地球社会基盤学系, 教授 (80194976)
Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
KeywordsOstracoda / Rice fields / Taxonomy / Invasive species
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

A new ostracod species of the genus Sarscypridopsis from a rice field in Kanagawa Prefecture was described and published. We concluded that this species could be an invasive species in Japan, and its description and naming will enable further monitoring. A second new species, belonging to the genus Dolerocypris, was found in a rice field in Osaka. At present further efforts are being undertaken to obtain more specimens to facilitate a description. DNA barcoding of typical ostracods species inhabiting rice fields was only partially successful. Of the 14 species analyzed, DNA barcodes were recovered for three species. Further records of ostracods from rice fields were published in a paper about the non-marine ostracod fauna of Tsushima, which provides zoogeographically important data about the distribution of some rice field species. Work continued on ostracod species found contaminating pet shops, which could potentially become invasive in Japanese rice fields. Seven are new records for Japan, and several are known as invasive species of rice fields in other countries. More rice field records were entered into the East Asian Non-marine Ostracod Database. Work to integrate this data with the open-access international Neotoma Database is at an advanced stage, with data scheduled to be uploaded this year.

  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All 2023 2022

All Journal Article (6 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results,  Peer Reviewed: 6 results,  Open Access: 3 results)

  • [Journal Article] A New Species of the Genus Sarscypridopsis (Crustacea: Ostracoda) Discovered in a Japanese Rice Field2023

    • Author(s)
      Robin James Smith, Hirokazu Ozawa, Aoi Mizukami, Shizuko Nakai
    • Journal Title

      Species Diversity

      Volume: 28 Pages: 5-13

    • DOI

      10.12782/specdiv.28.5

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] 群馬県菅沼におけるウチダザリガニPacifastacus leniusculusと共生ヒルミミズ および貝形虫の新記録2023

    • Author(s)
      星野 亨 ・群馬県立尾瀬高等学校理科部 ・大高明史 ・スミス ロビン J
    • Journal Title

      群馬県立自然史博物館研究報告

      Volume: 27 Pages: 99-106

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Descriptions of two Cypridopsinae (Ostracoda, Crustacea) species from the Nansei Islands, Japan, with the first records of non-marine ostracods from the Daito Islands (in press)2023

    • Author(s)
      Robin James Smith
    • Journal Title

      Zootaxa

      Volume: - Pages: -

    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Ilyocypris leptolinea Wang & Zhai, sp. nov., an ostracod (Ostracoda, Crustacea) from the late Quaternary of Inner Mongolia, northern China2022

    • Author(s)
      Qianwei Wang, David J. Horne, Jiawei Fan, Ruilin Wen, Robin J. Smith, Min Wang, Dayou Zhai
    • Journal Title

      ZooKeys

      Volume: 1137 Pages: 109-132

    • DOI

      10.3897/zookeys.1137.94224

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The ontogeny of two species of the family Notodromadidae (Cypridoidea, Ostracoda, Crustacea); taxonomic and palaeogeographic significance2022

    • Author(s)
      Robin James Smith, Patrick De Deckker, Takahiro Kamiya
    • Journal Title

      Zootaxa

      Volume: 5094 Pages: 351-395

    • DOI

      10.11646/zootaxa.5094.3.1

    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Two new species of non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) of the genera Vestalenula Rossetti & Martens, 1998 (Darwinuloidea) and Microloxoconcha Hartmann, 1954 (Cytheroidea) from Tsushima, Japan, and a summary of the non-marine ostracod fauna of the island2022

    • Author(s)
      Robin James Smith, Cheon Young Chang
    • Journal Title

      Zootaxa

      Volume: 5150 Pages: 529-555

    • DOI

      10.11646/zootaxa.5150.4.4

    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2023-12-25  

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