Taxonomic studies reveal marine biodiversity of Okinawa

Abstract

During 14 to 17 November 2016, the joint event of the 22nd International Congress of Zoology and the 87th meeting of Zoological Society of Japan was held in Okinawa prefecture. As one symposium of it on 17 November 2016, the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology Symposium 2016 entitled ‘Taxonomical studies reveal marine biodiversity of Okinawa’ was conducted at Okinawa Convention Center (Ginowan City, Okinawa). The four interesting lectures were given by the special invited speakers: Masato Hirose ‘Bryozoan diversity in Okinawa―species diversity and unique life forms associated with various bottom environments―’, Yuna Zayasu ‘Research activities by Japanese Society for Coral Taxonomy’, Hirofumi Kubo ‘The problem on the conservation of the molluscan diversity in bay area in Okinawa-jima Island’, and Tetsuo Yoshino ‘Coastal fish fauna of the Ryukyu Islands and its zoogeography’.