Research keywords (4):
Leech
, Invertebrate
, Species diversity
, Systematics
Research theme for competitive and other funds (8):
2022 - 2025 Evolution and adaptive traits of insular subterranean animals
2018 - 2022 Insight into evolution of the Orobdella gastroporal duct
2021 - 2022 Systematic study of cybaeid spiders inhabiting Japan
2017 - 2020 Developing and applying an invertebrate-derived DNA (iDNA) for a mammal survey tool
2015 - 2018 Insight into the Adaptive Evolution and Diversification in Erpobdelliformes
2015 - 2018 Investigation of the the Vega collection in Sweden: reconstruction of Lake Biwa environment and her scientific research on Japan in the early Meiji period
2014 - 2017 Species Diversity of Terrestrial Predatory Leeches in Asia
2013 - 2015 ヒル類における肉食化に伴う消化器の形態進化
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Papers (142):
Takafumi Nakano. Two new sexannulate species of Orobdella (Hirudinea: Erpobdelliformes: Orobdellidae) from Kyushu, Japan. Edaphologia. 2025. 116. 1-16
Zihan Yin, Jinping Liao, Linbei Li, Haiyang Xiang, Dongqin Xiang, Zhixiao Liu, Takafumi Nakano. A new species of Odontobdella Oka, 1923 (Erpobdelliformes: Salifidae), a macrophagous terrestrial leech from Central China. Zootaxa. 2025. 5566. 1. 159-172
Yusuke Sugawara, Yoh Ihara, Naoki Koike, Hong-Yul Seo, Larisa A. Prozorova, Zhi-Sheng Zhang, Takafumi Nakano. Systematics of cybaeid spiders endemic to the Japanese Archipelago, and their historical biogeographic implications (Araneae: Cybaeidae). Invertebrate Systematics. 2024. 38. 11
Satsuki Ikeda, Yume Imada, Takafumi Nakano. A new species of the genus Eustigmaeus (Trombidiformes: Prostigmata: Stigmaeidae) and the first record of E. extremiorientalis in Japan. Zootaxa. 2024. 5538. 3. 233-246
Chiaki Kambayashi, Alamsyah Elang Nusa Herlambang, Gloria Animalesto, Amir Hamidy, Takafumi Nakano. First record of Orientobdelloides tridens (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae) from Indonesia, with remarks on its taxonomic characters. Comparative Parasitology. 2024. 91. 2. 102-107
Takafumi Nakano, Mark J. Grygier. Is your e-work available?: Reivisiting the 2012 amendment to the Code. taxa, Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. 2018. 44. 64-68
2016/01 - 2019/12 Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology -
2018/09 - 2019/09 - -
2015/02 - 2015/06 - -
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Awards (2):
2015/02 - Inoue Foundation for Science Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists
2014/06 - Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology The Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology Special Meritorious Service Award
Association Membership(s) (5):
Society for the History of Natural History
, Society of Systematic Biologists
, Zoological Society of Japan
, Japanese Society of Soil Zoology
, Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology