At the California Academy of Science with a coelacanth specimen. Chief Curator/Researcher Yoshitaka Yabumoto (Ph.D.) Fishes Research Articles (⇒ all articles) Yabumoto, Y., Y. Sakamoto, and H. Liu. 2010. Osteology of the cyprinid fish, Xenocypris argentea. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 8: 69-86, figs. 1-13. Yabumoto, Y. and Y. Sakamoto. 2010. Revision of Iquius nipponicus Jordan 1919 (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Miocene of Iki Island, Nagasaki, Japan and its phylogenetic position. Ichthyological Research, 57: 286-297, figs. 1-9, tab. 1, app. Yabumoto, Y. 2010. Ikiculter chojabaruensis, a new genus and species of cyprinid fish from the Miocene of Iki Island, Nagasaki, Japan. Paleontological Research, 14(4): 277-292, figs. 1-9, tab. 1, apps. 1-2. Yabumoto, Y. and T. Uyeno. 2011. Euleiognathus, a new genus proposed for the Miocene ponyfish, Leiognathus tottori Yabumoto and Uyeno 1994 (Perciformes: Leiognathidae) from Japan. Ichthyological Research, (2011) 58:19-23, figs. 1-5. Brit, M. P. and Y. Yabumoto. 2011. An updated review of the fish faunas from the Crato and Santana formations in Brazil, a close relationship to the Tethys fauna. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 9: 107-136, figs. 1-33, apps. 1-2. Miyata, S., Y. Yabumoto and H. Hirano. 2011. Osteology of the cyprinid fish, Zacco platypus（Temminck and Schlegel, 1846）. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 9: 137-156, figs. 1-14. Presentations at Scientific Meetings (⇒ all presentations) Yabumoto, Y. 2010. Revision of Leiognathus tottori.  The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Japan. Tsukuba, June 10th-13th, 2010. Miyake, T., M. Kumamoto, M. Iwata, M. Okabe, H. Koie, K. Fujii, K. Matsuzaki, C. Nakamura, S. Yamauchi, Kosuke Yoshida, K. Yoshimura, A. Komada, S. Matsunaga, N. Kumai, Y. Yabumoto, K. Fujita, T. Uyeno and Y. Abe. 2010. The pectoral fin musculature of the coelacanth: an implication for evolution of mono- and multi-articular muscles in tetrapod limbs. International Symposium on Application of Biomechanical Control System to Precision Engineering (ISAB 2010), Aquamarine Fukushima (AMF), Japan. July 22nd to 24th , 2010. Yabumoto, Y. and P. Brito. 2010.  Second record of a coelacanth from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil, with comments on the development of coelacanths. Fifth International Meeting on Mesozoic Fishes. Global Diversity and Evolution. Museo Del Desiert, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. August 1st - 7th, 2010. Berrell, R. W., A. Kemp, J. Alvarado-Ortega, Y. Yabumoto and S. W. Salisbury. 2010. Mesozoic fishes from Australia. Fifth International Meeting on Mesozoic Fishes. Global Diversity and Evolution. Museo Del Desiert, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. August 1st - 7th, 2010. Miyata, S., Y. Yabumoto and H. Hirano. 2010. Osteology of cyprinid fish, Zacco platypus, Nippnocypris temminckii and N. sieboldii. The 2009 annual meeting of the Ichthyological Society of Japan, Tsu, Mie, Sept. 23 - 26, 2010. Yabumoto, Y. 2011. Middle Miocene freshwater fish assemblage of Iki Island Nagasaki, Japan with comments on the origin of extant freshwater fishes of East Asia. The 160th Regular Meeting. The Palaeontological Society of Japan, Kochi, Jan, 28tg - 30th, 2011. Yabumoto, Y., Y. Hikida, A. Miyazaki, T. Nishino. 2011. Late Cretaceous Crossognathiform fish from Nakagawa, Hokkaido, Japan. The 2011 Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Japan. Kanazawa, July 1st - 3rd, 2011. Miyake, Y., M. Aramaki, T. Komatsu , R. Hirayama, M. Manabe, T. Tsuihiji, Y. Yabumoto and T. Ohashi. 2011. Vertebrate fossils and depositional environments of the Upper Cretaceous Himenoura Group in the Koshikijima Islands, Kagoshima, Japan. The 2011 Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Japan. Kanazawa, July 1st - 3rd, 2011. Books (⇒ all books) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press 1984, 1988. (co–author) Biology of the Megamouth Shark. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 1997. (co–editor) (in English) Morphological Diversity of Fishes. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 2005. (co–author) (in Japanese) Coelacanths and Brazilian Fish Fossils -Evidence for Continental Drift –. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 2008. (in Japanese) The Complete Book of Japanese Bitterlings. MPJ, Tokyo, 2009. (co-author)(in Japanese)