2014 - 2016 Basic research on the conservation of mesophotic coral reefs around the Ryukyu Islands
2009 - 2011 Preliminary study on the inventory and conservation of the decapod crustacean fauna of the Ogasawara Islands, Japan
Papers (116):
YOSHIHISA FUJITA, TOHRU NARUSE. A new genus and species of a submarine cave crab of the family Plagusiidae Dana, 1851 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Grapsoidea) from Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan. Zootaxa. 2024
Ling Ming, Tsang, Tohru Naruse. Recognition of Parapinnixidae Števčić, 2005, and Tetriasidae fam. nov. in Pinnotheroidea De Haan, 1833 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Thoracotremata). Zootaxa. 2023. 5249. 5. 540-558
Hiroki Nakajima, James Davis Reimer, Tohru Naruse. Morphological and phylogenetic study of Acanthosquilla Manning, 1963 (Stomatopoda: Nannosquillidae) mantis shrimps, with description of two new species from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Zootaxa. 2023. 5231. 4. 351-375
Naruse T, Guinot D. A new species of the genus Hymenosoma Desmarest, 1823 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Hymenosomatidae) from Madagascar. Deep-Sea Crustaceans from South-West Indian Ocean. Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 33. 2023. 203-214
Amer M.A, Naruse T, Reimer J. D. Morphological and molecular investigation of some xanthid crabs from the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea. Thalassas. 2022
Fujita, Y, Saeki T, Nakayoshi N, Fukushima A, Naruse T. First record of Ryukyum yaeyamense (Minei, 1973) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Kohamajima Island, Yaeyama island group, southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 2021. 30. 11-19
McLAY CL, Naruse T. Erratum: COLIN L. McLAY TOHRU NARUSE (2019) Revision of the shell-carrying crab genus Conchoecetes Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae). Zootaxa, 4706: 001-047. Zootaxa. 2020. 4890. 4. zootaxa.4890.4.11
New record of the reef lobster Enoplometopus voigtmanni Türkay, 1989 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Enoplometopidae) from coastal waters off Okinoerabu Island, the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan. 2020. 47. 157-160
Takeda M, Komatsu H, Shikatani N, Maenosono T, Naruse T. Annotated list of subtidal crabs in the Shikatani Collection made at Nakagusuku Bay, Okinawa Island, the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana. 2019. 50. 1-69, 20 pls.
Kajihara H, Yoshida R, Naruse T. Gorgonorhynchus albocinctus (Nemertea: Heteronemertea) from Sotobanari, Yaeyama Islands, Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana. 2019. 48. 45-47