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 (130):
Taro Jonishi, Takafumi Nakano. Taxonomic re-appraisal of Scolopocryptops quadristriatus (Verhoeff, 1934) and a description of a new species from Japan and Taiwan (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Scolopocryptopidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution. 2024. 100. 2. 405-423
Takafumi Nakano, Larisa A. Prozorova. Terrestrial predatory leeches of the genus Orobdella (Hirudinea: Erpobdelliformes: Orobdellidae) endemic to the Southern Russian Far East: a new species of the genus from Primorsky Krai, Russia. Zootaxa. 2024. 5424. 1. 44-60
Kenji Suetsugu, Yasunori Nakamura, Takafumi Nakano, Shuichiro Tagane. Relictithismia kimotsukiensis, a new genus and species of Thismiaceae from southern Japan with discussions on its phylogenetic relationship. Journal of Plant Research. 2024
Raja Ben Ahmed, Takafumi Nakano, Joanna Piątek, Robert Krzyzczyk, Piotr Świątek. Spermatogenesis and spermatozoon ultrastructure in the jawed bloodfeeding land leech Haemadipsa japonica (Hirudinida: Hirudiniformes) from Japan. Folia Biologica (Kraków). 2023. 71. 4. 207-220
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