Hidetoshi Ota

Hidetoshi Ota, Japanese herpetologist.

• Institute of Natural and Environmental Science, University of Hyogo, and Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Sanda, Hyogo, Japan.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 24 taxon names authored by Hidetoshi Ota

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1987

• Ota, H. 1987. A New Species of Lepidodactylus (Gekkonidae: Reptilia) from Lanyu Island, Taiwan. Copeia 1987(1): 164–169. DOI: 10.2307/1446048 Reference page. 

1988

• Ota, H. & Hikida, T. 1988. A New Species of Lepidodactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Sabah, Malaysia. Copeia 1988(3): 616–621. DOI: 10.2307/1445379 Reference page. 

1989

• Ota, H. & Crombie, R.I. 1989. A new lizard of the genus Lepidodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Batan Island, Philippines. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 102(3): 559–567. BHL Reference page. 
• Ota, H. & Toyama, M. 1989. Taxonomic re-definition of Achalinus formosanus Boulenger (Xenoderminae: Colubridae: Ophidia), with description of a new subspecies. Copeia 1989(3): 597–602. DOI: 10.2307/1445485 Reference page. 
• Ota, H. & Toyama, M. 1989.Two additional specimens of Achalinus formosanus chigirai (Colubridae: Ophidia) from the Yaeyama Group, Ryukyu Archipelago. Japanese Journal of Herpetology 13(2): 40–43. PDF Reference page. 

1994

• Hikida, T. & Ota, H. 1994. Sphenomorphus aquaticus Malkmus, 1991, a junior synonym of Tropidophorus beccarii (Peters, 1871) (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 45(1): 57–60. Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Ota, H. & Tanaka S. 1994. Phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Squamata: Eublepharidae) from the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, with description of a new subspecies. Zoological Science 11(2): 319–335. BHL Reference page. 

1995

• Ota, H., Fisher, R.N., Ineich, I. & Case, T.J. 1995. Geckos of the Genus Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Reptilia) in Micronesia: Description of a New Species and Reevaluation of the Status of Gecko moestus Peters, 1867. Copeia 1995(1): 183–195. DOI: 10.2307/1446813 Reference page. 

1996

• Takeda, N. & Ota, H. 1996. Description of a new species of Takydromus from the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, and a taxonomic redefinition of T. smaragdinus Boulenger 1887 (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Herpetologica 52(1): 77–88. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Ota, H., Sengoku, S. & Hikida, T. 1996. Two New Species of Luperosaurus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Borneo. Copeia 1996(2): 433–439. DOI: 10.2307/1446860 JSTOR Reference page. 

1997

• Ota, H., Lin, J.-T., Hirata, T. & Chen, S.-L. 1997. Systematic Review of Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Pareas in the East Asian Islands. Journal of Herpetology 31(1): 79–87. DOI: 10.2307/1565332 Reference page. 

1999

• Ota, H., Ito, A. & Lin, J.-T. 1999. Systematic review of the Elapid snakes allied to Hemibungarus japonicus (Günther, 1868) in the East Asian Islands, with description of a new subspecies from the central Ryukyus. Journal of Herpetology 33(4): 675–687. DOI: 10.2307/1565585 Reference page. 
• Ota, H., Honda, M., Kobayashi, M., Sengoku, S. & Hikida, T. 1999. Phylogenetic Relationships of Eublepharid Geckos (Reptilia: Squamata): A Molecular Approach. Zoological Science 16(4): 659–666. DOI: 10.2108/zsj.16.659 Reference page. 

2000

• Brown, R.M., Supriatna, J. & Ota, H. 2000. Discovery of a New Species of Luperosaurus (Squamata; Gekkonidae) from Sulawesi, with a Phylogenetic Analysis of the Genus, and Comments on the Status of Luperosaurus serraticaudus. Copeia 2000(1): 191–209. DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2000)2000[0191:DOANSO]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 

2002

• Ota, H. & Matsui, M. 2002. On the authorship of Babina (Amphibia: Ranidae). Current Herpetology 21(1): 51–53. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.21.51 Reference page. 
• Hikida, T., Orlov, N.L., Nabhitabhata, J. & Ota, H. 2002. Three New Depressed-bodied Water Skinks of the Genus Tropidophorus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Thailand and Vietnam. Current Herpetology 21(1): 9–23. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.21.9 Reference page. 

2003

• Hikida, T., Riyanto, A. & Ota, H. 2003. A new water skink of the genus Tropidophorus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Current Herpetology 22(1): 29–36. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.22.29 Reference page. 

2006

• Honda, M., Ota, H., Murphy, R.W. & Hikida, T. 2006. Phylogeny and biogeography of water skinks of the genus Tropidophorus (Reptilia: Scincidae): a molecular approach. Zoologica Scripta 35(1): 85–95. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00215.x Reference page. 

2013

• Kaiser, H., Crother, B.I., Kelly, C.M.R., Luiselli, L., O’Shea, M., Ota, H., Passos, P., Schleip, W.D. & Wüster, W. 2013. Best practices: in the 21st Century, taxonomic decisions in herpetology are acceptable only when supported by a body of evidence and published via peer-review. Herpetological Review 44(1): 8–23. PDF Reference page. 

2014

• Honda, M., Kurita, T., Toda, M. & Ota, H. 2014. Phylogenetic Relationships, Genetic Divergence, Historical Biogeography and Conservation of an Endangered Gecko, Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Squamata: Eublepharidae), from the Central Ryukyus, Japan. Zoological Science 31(5): 309–320. DOI: 10.2108/zs130201 Reference page. 

2017

• Honda, M. & Ota, H. 2017. On the Live Coloration and Partial Mitochondrial DNA Sequences in the Topotypic Population of Goniurosaurus kuroiwae orientalis (Squamata: Eublepharidae), with Description of a New Subspecies from Tokashikijima Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Asian Herpetological Research 8(2): 96–107. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.170003 Reference page. 
• Kurita, K., Ota, H. & Hikida, T. 2017. A new species of Plestiodon (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Senkaku Group, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Zootaxa 4254(5): 520–536. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.5.2 Reference page. 

2021

• Riyanto, A.,Fauzi, M.A., Sidik, I., Mumpuni, Irham, M., Kurniawan, N., Ota, H., Okamoto, T., Hikida, T. & Grismer, L.L. 2021. Another New Bent-toed Gecko, genus Cyrtodactylus Gray 1837 (Squamata: Gekkonidae), from Borneo. Zootaxa 5026(2): 286–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5026.2.8. Reference page. 
• Smart, U., Ingrasci, M.J., Sarker, G.C., Lalremsanga, H., Murphy, R.W., Ota, H., Tu, M.C., Shouche, Y., Orlov, N.L. & Smith, E.N. 2021. A comprehensive appraisal of evolutionary diversity in venomous Asian coralsnakes of the genus Sinomicrurus (Serpentes: Elapidae) using Bayesian coalescent inference and supervised machine learning. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59(8): 2212–2277. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12547 Reference page.