2016 年 40 巻 p. 1-2
The Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology Symposium 2015 entitled "Collaboration between taxonomists and paleontologists: Taxonomy and phylogeny of marine invertebrates using extant and fossil specimens" was held as a symposium of the 86th Annual Meeting the Zoological Society of Japan in Niigata on 17 September 2015. The four invited speakers gave their talks as follows: Yuki Tokuda "Morphological variability triggered by the changes in life history strategies of azooxanthellate solitary corals", Hayato Tanaka "Ostracodology reveals the connections between taxonomy and paleobiology", Takuma Haga "Tracking evolutionary history of pholadoidean boring bivalves-A combined approach by molecular phylogenetics and fossil scrutiny", and Masanori Okanishi "Evolutionary study of ophiuroids based on systematics, behavioral ecology and paleontology".