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Curator/Researcher Yusuke Hibino Fishes Ph.D, Mie University (2016)
Taxonomy of eels (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae, Congridae, Muraenidae, Nettastomidae and Chlopsidae)
Recent Publications (only English literatures) ⚫ Kazuki Matsushige, Yusuke Hibino, Yoshiya Yasutake and Noritaka Mochioka. Japanese eels, Anguilla japonica, can surmount a 46‑m‑high natural waterfall of the Amikake River system of Kyushu Island, Japan. Ichthyological Research. Published online. DOI: 10.1007/s10228-020-00759-1. 2020. ⚫ Yusuke Hibino and John E. McCosker. Resurrection of Ophichthus zophistius (Actinopterygii: Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with a revised diagnosis of O. altipennis. Zootaxa, 4801 (2): 328-342. 2020. ⚫ Yusuke Hibino, Kaoru Kuriiwa, Tetsuya Yamada, Kiyotaka Hatooka, Kar Hoe Loh and Tetsuro Sasaki. First Records of Uropterygius oligospondylus (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from Minami-iwo-to Island, Southern Japan. Species Diversity, 25 (2): 177-182. 2020. Published online. DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.25.177 ⚫ Yusuke Hibino, Yukiya Ogata, Shunsuke Endo, Masaaki Wada, Atsunobu Murase and Noritaka Mochioka. First records of a rare snake eel, Leiuranus versicolor (Anguilliformes, Ophichthidae) from Japan. FishTaxa, 4(3): 145-149. 2019. ⚫ Quang Vo Van, Yusuke Hibino and Hsuan-Ching Ho. A new species of the snake eel genus Ophichthus, with Additional Records from Viet Nam (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae). Zoological Studies, 58: 43 (published online). 2019. ⚫ Yusuke Hibino, Yung-Chieh Chiu, Hong-Ming Chen and Kwang-Tsao Shao. Two new species of the genus Ophichthus from the western central Pacific Ocean, with a redescription of Ophichthus megalops Asano, 1987 (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae). Zootaxa, 4702: 140-154. 2019. ⚫ Etsuro Sawai, Yusuke Hibino and Tomoki Iwasaki. A rare river stranding record of sharptail sunfish Masturus lanceolatus in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Biogeography, 21: 27-30. 2019. ⚫ Yusuke Hibino, Hsuan-Ching Ho and John E. McCosker. A new species of Muraenichthys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Taiwan, with redescription of Muraenichthys thompsoni Jordan & Richardson, 1908. Zootaxa, 4702: 41-48. 2019. ⚫ K.S. Sumod, Yusuke Hibino, Hashim Manjabrayakath and Sanjeevan, V.N. Description of a new species of deep-water snake eel, Ophichthus mccoskeri (Ophichthidae: Ophichthinae) from Andaman Sea, India. Zootaxa, 4686: 112-118. 2019. ⚫ Yusuke Hibino, John E. McCosker and Fumihito Tashiro. Four new deepwater Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Japan with a redescription of Ophichthus pallens (Richardson 1848). Ichthyological Research. DOI: 10.1007/s10228-018-00677-3. 2019. ⚫ Yusuke Hibino. A new species of Apterichtus (Actinopterygii: Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Tori-shima island, southern Japan with notes on characters of supraorbital canal. Species Diversity, 23: 219-223. 2018. ⚫ Yusuke Hibino and Ryoichi Tabata. Description of a new catfish, Silurus tomodai (Siluriformes: Siluridae) from central Japan. Zootaxa, 4459: 507-524. 2018. ⚫ Hsuan-Ching Ho, Yusuke Hibino and Jian-Fu Huang. Note on rare snake eels (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) and additional data on three Neenchelys recently described from Taiwan. Zootaxa, 4554. 2018. ⚫ David G. Smith, Yusuke Hibino and Hsuan-Ching Ho. Two new elongate unpatterned moray eels from Taiwan and Vietnam, with notes on two congeners (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae). Zootaxa, 4454. 2018 ⚫ Hsuan-Ching Ho, David G. Smith, Kenneth A. Tighe, Yusuke Hibino and John E. McCosker. Checklist of eels of Taiwan (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes): An update. Zootaxa, 4554. 2018.
Books (only English) ⚫ Yusuke Hibino. Chlopsidae, Muraenidae, Ophichthidae, and Muraenesocidae. In: Keita Koeda and Hsuan-Ching Ho (eds.) Fishes of Southern Taiwan. Volume I. National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium, Pingtung, Taiwan. 2019. ⚫ Yusuke Hibino. Muraenidae, Synaphobranchidae, Ophichthidae, Congridae, and Muraesocidae. Pages 18-32. In: Seishi Kimura, Hisashi Imamura, Van Quan Nguyen, and Pham Hong Ha (eds.) Fishes of Ha Long Bay, the natural world heritage site in northern Vietnam. Fisheries Research Laboratory, Mie University, Shima, Japan. 2018. ⚫ Yusuke Hibino. Moriguidae, Muraenidae, Ophichthidae, Congridae, and Muraenesocidae. Pages 27-39. In: Hiroyuki Motomura, Ulysses B. Alama, Nozomu Muto, Ricardo P. Babaran, and Satoshi Ishikawa (eds.) Commercial and Bycatch Market Fishes of Panay Island, Republic of the Philippines. The Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima, University of the Philippines Visayas, Iloilo, and Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto. 2017. ⚫ Keita Koeda, Yusuke Hibino, Tomohiro Yoshida, Yuki Kimura, Ryohei Miki, Taiga Kunishima, Daichi Sasaki, Takanao Furukawa, Momoko Sakurai, Keisuke Eguchi, Hiromu Suzuki, Tomoki Inaba, Takuya Uejo, Saki Tanaka, Misaki Fujisawa, Hidetoshi Wada, and Teppei Uchiyama. Annotated checklist of fishes of Yonaguni- jima island, the westernmost island in Japan. Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima. v + 120 pp. 2016. ⚫ Yusuke Hibino. MURAENIDAE, OPHICHTHIDAE, and MURAENESOCIDAE. Pages 10-12. In: Seishi Kimura, Aziz Arshad, Hisashi Imamura, and Mazlan Abd Ghaffar (eds.) Fishes of the northwestern Johor Strait peninsular Malaysia. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press and Mie University, Japan. 2015.
Apr. 1, 2021