New article: Coralline diversity of mesophotic rhodoliths in subtropical Japan

Congratulations to Dr. Min-Khant-Kyaw, Dr. Aki Kato, and the other distinguished co-authors on this excellent article on the coralline diversity of mesophotic rhodoliths in subtropical Japan, including the description of new species of Sporolithon and the emended genera Orientalilithon and Roseolithon. We are very proud and delighted to have contributed to this study.

 

Min-Khant-Kyaw, Masasuke Baba, Ryuta Terada, Aki Kato 2026. Unveiling coralline diversity of mesophotic rhodoliths in subtropical Japan, including new species of Sporolithon, emended genera Orientalilithon and Roseolithon (Corallinophycidae, Rhodophyta). 

Journal of Phycology 

DOI:10.1111/jpy.70176

 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpy.70176

Longterm monitoring survey

The phycology laboratories at Kobe University and Kagoshima University have participated for many years in a nationwide long-term monitoring survey of macroalgal communities in Japan. As part of the collaboration between the two laboratories, Professor Ryuta Terada, head of the Marine Botany Laboratory, Kagoshima University, participated this week in field surveys at Awajishima Island, facing the Kitan Strait (part of the Pacific Ocean), and at Takeno, facing the Sea of Japan, which were conducted by the Kobe University Research Center for Inland Seas. A phycologist from the Fisheries Research Agency of Japan also participated in the survey. During the survey, dense communities of Ecklonia cava and Sargassum species were confirmed. Recent studies have reported characteristic changes in these algal communities in Japan, and the article is freely available at the following link: DOI:10.1111/pre.70019

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pre.70019

 

Ecklonia cava (Yura, Awajishima island)

Sargassum macrocarpum (Takeno, Toyooka)