Plankton and Benthos Research

Plankton and Benthos Research

Published by The Plankton Society of Japan, The Japanese Association of Benthology

595 registered articles
(updated on February 14, 2026)

Online ISSN : 1882-627X
Print ISSN : 1880-8247
ISSN-L : 1880-8247

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2025 Volume 20 Issue 4

New record of underexplored sand dollar Peronella (Echinoidea: Laganidae) from Taiwan Chia-Hsin Hsu, Chia-Hao Chang, Chien-Hsiang Lin
Two gnathiid isopods utilizing empty tubes of the polychaete worm Spirobranchus akitsushima in the Seto Inland Sea, western Japan, with the description of a new species Yuzo Ota, Sadaaki Yoshimatsu
Enhanced astaxanthin accumulation in the microalga Haematococcus lacustris in seawater through the combination of salinity, nitrogen starvation and high light Qianyi Gu, Anupreet Kaur Chowdhary, Mutsumi Sekine, Tatsuki Toda
Reproductive biology of four planktonic calanoid copepods, Pleuromamma abdominalis, P. gracilis, P. indica and P. xiphias Syoyoung Park, Yoshiki Takayama, Shinji Shimode

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Seasonal changes in Skeletonema species in the sediment of Tokyo Bay evaluated with real-time PCR assays

Released on J-STAGE: February 28, 2025 | Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 17-28

Yakun Liu, Fuka Furuoka, Yuki Yoshinaka, Kohei Mizobata, Katsuhide Yokoyama, Toshiya Katano
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A checklist of the parasitic copepods of Taiwanese aquatic animals (1930–2024), with a note on Ju-shey Ho’s contribution to clarifying the parasitic copepod fauna of Taiwan

Released on J-STAGE: September 13, 2025 | Volume 20 Issue Spec Pages s202-s227

Kazuya Nagasawa, Yu-Rong Cheng
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A description of a novel swimming behavior in a dioecious population of Craspedacusta sowerbii, the rediscovery of the elusive Astrohydra japonica and the first genetic analysis of freshwater jellyfish in Japan

Released on J-STAGE: May 31, 2022 | Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 231-248

Miles I Peterson, Kei Chloe Tan, Allen Collins, Satoshi Kitano, Yasushi Kusuoka, Takahito G Suzuki, Masao Migita, Iffah Iesa, Stacy Pirro, Dhugal Lindsay, Cheryl Lewis Ames
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Eutrophication and occurrences of harmful algal blooms in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan

Released on J-STAGE: April 20, 2009 | Volume 1 Issue 2 Pages 71-84

Ichiro Imai, Mineo Yamaguchi, Yutaka Hori
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Burrow morphology of ghost crab Ocypode stimpsoni on Ikarashi beach, Niigata, Japan

Released on J-STAGE: March 02, 2023 | Volume 18 Issue 1 Pages 1-12

Yoshino Ishizaki, Masaya Ogura, Chihiro Takahashi, Maya Kaneko, Akari Imura, Yuta Shiino

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