Masanori Nonaka

Masanori Nonaka, Japanese cnidariologist

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Nonaka, M., Yamamoto, H.H., Kamiki, T., Baird A.H. 2003. Reseeding the reefs of Okinawa with the larvae of captive-bred corals. Coral Reefs. 22: 34.

Baird, A.H., Gilmour, J.P., Kamiki, T.M., Nonaka, M., Pratchett, M.S., Yamamoto, H.H., Yamasaki, H. 2006. Temperature tolerance of symbiotic and non-symbiotic coral larvae. Proceedings of the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium. Japanese Coral Reef Society, Japan. 38–42.
Kimura, T., Hasegawa, H., Igarashi, T., Inaba, M., Iwao, K., Iwase, F., Kajiwara, K., Matsumoto, T., Nakai, T., Nojima, S., Nomura, K., Nonaka, M., Oki, K., Sakai, K., Shimoike, K., Sugihara, K., Ueno, M., Ueno, S., Yamano, H., Yokochi, H., Yoshida, M. 2006. Status of coral reefs in Japan. Proceedings of the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium. Japanese Coral Reef Society, Japan. 1068–1076.
Yamamoto, H.H., Nonaka, M., Kamei, Y., Uchida, S. 2006. Education and conservation of coral reefs at Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. Proceedings of the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium. Japanese Coral Reef Society, Japan. 1713–1716.
Nonaka, M., Muzik, K., Uchida, S. 2006. Culture, study and display of precious corals. Proceedings of the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium. Japanese Coral Reef Society, Japan. 1821–1831.

Baird, A.H., Bhagooli, R., Nonaka, M., Yakovleva, I., Yamamoto, H.H., Hidaka, M., Yamasaki, H. 2008. Environmental controls on the establishment and development of algal symbiosis in corals Proceedings of the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 7-11 July 2008 Session number 5. 108–112.
Hirose, M., Yamamoto, H.H., Nonaka, M. 2008. Metamorphosis and acquisition of symbiotic algae in planula larvae and primary polyps of Acropora spp. Coral Reefs. 27: 247–254.
Reimer, J.D., Nonaka, M., Sinniger, F., Iwase, F. 2008. Morphological and molecular characterization of a new genus and new species of parazoanthid (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) associated with Japanese red coral (Paracorallium japonicum) in southern Japan. Coral Reefs. 27: 935–949.

Nonaka, M., Muzik, K. 2009. Recent harvest records of commercially valuable precious corals in the Ryukyu Archipelago. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 397: 269–278.
Reimer, J.D., Sinniger, F., Nonaka, M., Uchida, S. 2009. Non-invasive internal morphological examination of epizoic zoanthids utilizing CT scanners. Coral Reefs. 28: 621.
Yakovleva, I.M., Baird, A.H., Yamamoto, H.H., Bhagooli, R., Nonaka, M., Hidaka, M. 2009. Algal symbionts increase oxidative damage and death in coral larvae at high temperatures. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 378: 105–112.

Nonaka, M., Muzik, K. 2010. Jewels of the deep sea: precious corals. In: Uchida, S. (Ed.), Into the unknown, researching mysterious deep-sea animals. Proceedings of an International Symposium, 23–24 Feb 2007. Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Okinawa. 84–127.

Aguilar-Hurtado, C., Nonaka, M., Reimer, J.D. 2012. The Melithaeidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) of the Ryukyu Archipelago: molecular and morphological examinations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 64(1): 56–65.
Nonaka, M. 2012. Studies for conservation on Japanese precious corals. Doctoral Thesis of Science. Marine and Environmental Science Graduate School of Engineering and Science, University of the Ryukyus. 326 pp.
Nonaka, M., Muzik, K. 2012. Remarkable early studies of Japanese precious corals. Proceedings of an International Precious Coral Forum 2012 in Kochi, 9 Mar. 2012. 46–69.
Nonaka, M., Muzik, K. 2012. Systematic studies of the Indo-Pacific Corallidae. Proceedings of an International Precious Coral Forum 2012 in Kochi, 9 Mar. 2012. 70–84.
Nonaka, M., Muzik, K., Iwasaki, N. 2012. Descriptions of two new species and designation of three neotypes of Japanese Coralliidae collected by Kishinouye, introducing a statistical approach. Zootaxa. 3428: 1–67.
Nonaka, M., Nakamura, M., Tsukahara, M., Reimer J.D. 2012. Histological examination of precious corals from the Ryukyu Archipelago. Journal of Marine Biology. 2012: 519091, 14 pp.

Isomura, N., Baba, Y., Nagata, S., Nonaka, M., Yamamoto, H.H. 2013. The relationship between genetic similarity and reproductive success in the branching coral Acropora intermedia. Marine Biology Research. 9: 181–188.

Rahman, M.A., Karl K., Nonaka, M., Fujimura, H., Shinjo, R., Oomori, T., Wörheide G. 2014. Characterization of the proteinaceous skeletal organic matrix from the precious coral Corallium konojoi. Proteomics 14: 20–21.

Nonaka, M., Nakamura, M., Muzik, K. 2015. Sexual reproduction of precious corals from Japanese waters. Pacific Science. 69 (1): 15–46.
Nonaka, M., Takaoka H., Muzik, K. 2015. The taxonomic problem of the Hawaiian pink coral, Corallium secundum. 2014 International Symposium on Pacific Precious Corals Final Report. 247–256.

Nonaka, M., Muzik, K. 2016. The first records of two species of precious coral (Octocorallia: Coralliidae) from the Ryukyu Archipelago. Fauna Ryukyuana. 29: 15–36.
Reimer, J.D., Higashiji, T., Nonaka, M. 2016. First record of the genus Sphenopus (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) from Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana 29: 37–40.

Imahara, Y., Yamamoto, H., Takaoka, H., Nonaka, M. 2017. First records of four soft coral species from Japan, with a list of soft corals previously found from the shallow waters of the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, and an overview on the systematics of the genera Siphonogorgia and Chironephthya. Fauna Ryukyuana. 38: 1–30.
Miyamoto, M., Kiyota, M., Hayashibara, T., Nonaka, M., Imahara, Y., Tachikawa, H. 2017. Megafaunal composition of cold-water corals and other deep-sea benthos in the southern Emperor Seamounts area, North Pacific Ocean. Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies. 19: 19–30.

Reimer, J.D., Kise, H., Santos, M.E.A., Lindsay, D.J., Pyle, R.L., Copus, J.M., Bowen, B.W., Nonaka, M., Higashiji, T., Benayahu, Y. 2019. Exploring the Biodiversity of Understudied Benthic Taxa at Mesophotic and Deeper Depths: Examples From the Order Zoantharia (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia). Frontiers in Marine Science. 6: 305.
Takata, K., Taninaka, H., Nonaka, M., Iwase, F., Kikuchi, T., Suyama, Y., Nagai, S., Yasuda, N. 2019. Multiplexed ISSR genotyping by sequencing distinguishes two precious coral species (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Coralliidae) that share a mitochondrial haplotype. PeerJ 7: e7769.

Kise, H., Higashiji, T., Nonaka, M., Uyeno, D., Reimer, J.D. 2020. First records of the genus Sphenopus from temperate waters and lower mesophotic depths. Marine Biodiversity. 50: 12.

Nonaka, M., Hayashibara, T. 2021. Report on Coralliidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) Specimens Collected from the Emperor Seamounts with Descriptions of Three New Species. Species Diversity. 26: 297–342.
Takata, K., Iwase, F., Iguchi, A., Yuasa, H., Taninaka, H., Iwasaki, N., Uda, K., Suzuki, T., Nonaka, M., Kikuchi, T., Yasuda, N. 2021. Genome-Wide SNP Data Revealed Notable Spatial Genetic Structure in the Deep-Sea Precious Coral Corallium japonicum. Frontiers in Marine Science. 8: 667481.

Nonaka, M., Hanahara, N., Kakui, K. 2023. A New Species of Coralliidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) Collected from Eastern Japan. Species Diversity. 28(2): 231–243. DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.28.231 . Reference page.