Hiromi Kayama Watanabe

Hiromi Kayama Watanabe, Japanese malacologist.

Department of Marine Biodiversity Research (BIO-DIVE), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka 237–0061, Japan.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Yahagi, T., Watanabe, H., Kojima, S., Beedessee, G. & Komai, T. 2014. First record and a new species of Alvinocaris Williams & Chace, 1982 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae) from the Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 3893(1): 101–113. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3893.1.4 Reference page.

Chen, C., Watanabe, H.K. & Araya, J.F. 2017. First columbellid species (Gastropoda: Buccinoidea) from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, discovered in Okinawa Trough, Japan. Zootaxa 4363(4): 592–596. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4363.4.13 Full text PDF from ResearchGate. Reference page.

Komai, T., Chen, C. & Watanabe, H.K. 2018. Two new species of the crangonid genus Metacrangon Zarenkov, 1965 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the Okinawa Trough, Japan. Zootaxa 4410(1): 97–112. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.1.5 Reference page.
Uyeno, D., Watanabe, H.K. & Shimanaga, M. 2018. A new dirivultid copepod (Siphonostomatoida) from hydrothermal vent fields of the Izu-Bonin Arc in the North Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 4415(2): 381–389. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4415.2.8 Reference page.
Watanabe, H.K., Chen, C., Marie, D.P., Takai, K., Fujikura, K. & Chan, B.K-K. 2018. Phylogeography of hydrothermal vent stalked barnacles: a new species fills a gap in the Indian Ocean 'dispersal corridor' hypothesis. Royal Society Open Science 5(4): 172408. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.172408 Reference page.

Chen, C., Watanabe, H.K., Sasaki, T. 2019. Four new deep-sea provannid snails (Gastropoda: Abyssochrysoidea) discovered from hydrocarbon seep and hydrothermal vents in Japan. Royal Society Open Science. 6(7): 190393. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.190393 Reference page.

Okanishi, M., Kato, M., Watanabe, H.K., Chen, C., Fujita, T. 2020. Large populations of two new species of Ophiambix (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) discovered on Japanese hot vents and cold seeps. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 68: 196–213. DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0017 Reference page.
Sato, K., Kano, Y., Setiamarga, D.H.E., Watanabe, H.K. & Sasaki, T. 2020. Molecular phylogeny of protobranch bivalves and systematic implications of their shell microstructure. Zoologica Scripta 49(4): 458–472. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12419 Reference page.

Tomikawa, K., Watanabe, H.K., Tanaka, K. & Ohara, Y. 2021. A new species of Princaxelia from Shinkai Seep Field, Mariana Trench (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Pardaliscidae). ZooKeys 1015: 115–127. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1015.59683 Reference page.
Watanabe, H.K., Chen, C. & Chan, B.K-K. 2021. A new deep-sea hot vent stalked barnacle from the Mariana Trough with notes on the feeding ecology of Vulcanolepas. Marine Biodiversity 51(9): 1–12. DOI: 10.1007/s12526-020-01144-x Reference page.

Chen, C. & Watanabe, H.K. 2022. A new provannid snail (Gastropoda, Abyssochrysoidea) discovered from Northwest Eifuku Volcano, Mariana Arc. ZooKeys 1112ː 123–137. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1112.85950 Reference page.