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Ai Nonaka
ContractorDepartment / Division
Education
- B.A. English Literature, Hosei University Tokyo
Research Interests
Sorting and identifying marine larval fishes, databasing, translation of Japanese scientific papers, educational outreach activities, especially for Japanese museum guests.
Publications
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- Girard, Matthew G., Nonaka, Ai, Baldwin, Carole C., and Johnson, G. David. 2024. Discovery and Description of Elaborate Larval Cusk-Eels and the Relationships among Acanthonus, Tauredophidium, and Xyelacyba (Teleostei: Ophidiidae). NOAA Fisheries. In NMFS Professional Paper, 24. https://doi.org/10.7755/PP.24.3.
Journal Article
- Girard, Matthew G., Mundy, Bruce C., Nonaka, Ai, and Johnson, G. D. 2023. "Cusk-eel confusion: revisions of larval Luciobrotula and Pycnocraspedum and re-descriptions of two bythitid larvae (Ophidiiformes)." Ichthyological Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-023-00906-4.
- Nonaka, Ai, Milisen, Jeffrey W., Mundy, Bruce C., and Johnson, G. D. 2021. "Blackwater Diving: An Exciting Window Into the Planktonic Arena and Its Potential to Enhance the Quality of Larval Fish Collections." Ichthyology & Herpetology, 109, (1) 138–156. https://doi.org/10.1643/i2019318.
- Anderson, William D., Johnson, G. David, and Nonaka, Ai. 2018. "Review of the groppos, Grammatonotus (Percoidei: Callanthiidae." Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 24, (2) 47–80.
- Baldwin, Carole C., Tornabene, Luke, Robertson, D. Ross, Nonaka, Ai, and Gilmore, R. Grant. 2018. "More new deep-reef basslets (Teleostei, Grammatidae, Lipogramma), with updates on the eco-evolutionary relationships within the genus." Zookeys, (729) 129–161. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.729.21842.
- Baldwin, Carole C., Robertson, D. Ross, Nonaka, Ai, and Tornabene, Luke M. 2016. "Two new deep-reef basslets (Teleostei, Grammatidae, Lipogramma), with comments on the eco-evolutionary relationships of the genus." ZooKeys, 638 45–82. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.638.10455.
- Miyamoto, Kei, Nonaka, Ai, and Oka, Shin-Ichiro. 2015. "Northernmost record of a poorly known tuskfish, Choerodon margaritiferus (Perciformes: Labridae), from southern Japan, and first description of a female." Zootaxa, 4007, (1) 82–90. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4007.1.5.