The 48th Annual Meeting of the Herpetological Society of Japan The Lecture Building of Faculty of Helth, Budo, and Sports Studies, Tainosyo Campus, Tenri University, Nara, Japan November 7-8, 2009 The 48th Annual Meeting of Herpetological Society of Japan Schedule: Nov. 7, 2009 (Sat) Registration Opening address / Public lecture Lunch Oral presentations Break Oral presentations Poster presentations Banquet 08:30– 10:00–11:40 12:15–13:00 13:00–14:30 14:30–14:45 14:45–16:15 16:15–17:45 18:30–20:30 Nov. 8, 2009 (Sun) Registration Oral presentations Break Oral presentations Group photo Lunch Business meeting Poster presentations Closing address 08:30– 09:00–10:30 10:30–10:45 10:45–12:00 12:00–12:15 12:15–13:00 13:00–14:00 14:00–15:30 15:40– Venue: The Lecture Building of Faculty of Helth, Budo, and Sports Studies, Tainosyo Campus, Tenri University, Tenri, Nara, Japan Fee: Registration, ¥3,500, banquet, ¥4,500 (registered by 14 Sep.: registration, ¥3,000, banquet, ¥4,000) Oral presentation: Each presentation should be made for 12 minutes, and will be followed by 3 minutes of discussion. Files for the presentation should be formatted for the Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 or Adobe (Acrobat) Reader in Windows (XP). Please pass your file in CD or USB stick memory to our staff at reception desk. Poster presentation: Poster panel size: 113 cm (width) x 165 cm (height). Posters can be set up from 8:30 on 7 November, and should be removed by 15:30 on 8 November by presenters. Abstracts: Abstracts of presentations, which will appear in the Bulletin of the Herpetological Society of Japan 2010(1), should be sent to ”abst@frog.econ.keio.jp” by 12:00 pm, on 5 November 2009. Each abstract should include title, author(s), his/her (their) affiliation(s) and text (less than 200 words). The Office of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Herpetological Society of Japan c/o Takanori Sato, Oyasato Institute for the Study of Religion, Tenri University Somanouchi, Tenri, Nara 632-8510, Japan Tel.: +81-743-63-8105 Fax: +81-743-63-7255 Email: tasato@sta.tenri-u.ac.jp 1 JR-Line Kintetsu-Line Tenri Station The Lecture Building of Faculty of Helth, Budo, and Sports Studies, Tainosyo Campus, Tenri University The place of the Public lecture The place of social gathering meeting 2 Oral Presentations Room A (64B), 7 November 2009 (Sat) (Chairman: Kanto Nishikawa) A01 13:00-13:15 ○Masahiro Saka, Noriko Tada (Kyoto Pref.Inst.Publ.Health Environ.) Acute toxicity of rice paddy herbicides Simetryn, Mefenacet, and Thiobencarb on Silurana tropicalis tadpoles A02 13:15-13:30 ○Mitsuaki Ogata (Preservation and research center, city of Yokohama) Ikuo Miura (Ins. Amphibian Bio. Grad. Sch. of Sci., Hiroshima Univ.) The third shift of heterogametic sex from male to female in the frog Rana rugosa A03 13:30-13:45 ○Kumi Matsui (Lab. Physiol. I, Sch. Vet. Med., Azabu Univ.), Shigeki Inaba (NITE-DOB) Disinfection of amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis with salt water A04 13:45-14:00 ○Momoko Kameda, Chika Tatsumi, Kumi Matsui (Lab. Physiol. I, Sch. Vet. Med., Azabu Univ.), Kota Nakajima, Yumi Une (Lab. Pathol., Sch. Vet. Med., Azabu Univ.), Tomoko Tanaka-Ueno (Center for Liberal Arts, Meiji Gakuin Univ.), Shigeki Inaba (NITE-DOB), Kinji Fukuyama (Dept. Biol., Keio Univ.) Experimental exposure of pure-cultured amphibian chytrid fungus on the Indian rice frog Fejervarya limnocharis. A05 14:00-14:15 ○Koichi Goka (NIES), Jun Yokoyama (Yamagata Univ.), Kazutaka Suzuki, Atsushi Tominaga (NIES), Jean-Marc Hero (Grifith Univ.) & Alex Hyatt (CSIRO) Inspection of the “Chytridiomycosis from the Asian hypothesis” Part 1: The genetic divergence of chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis A06 14:15-14:30 ○Atsushi Tominaga, Koichi Goka, Kazutaka Suzuki (Nat'l, Inst. Environ. Std), Kenichi Tamukai (Denenchofu Animal Hosp.) Inspection of the “Chytridiomycosis out from Asia hypothesis” Part 2: The infection risk and pathogenicity of chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis carried by the Japanese sword tailed newt <Break> (Chairman: Atsushi Tominaga) A07 14:45-15:00 ○Kazuko Hase(Grad.Sch.Arts and Sci.,Tokyo Univ.), Naruo Nikoh(Div. Natural Sci., Open Univ Jap.), Masakazu Shimada(Grad.Sch.Arts and Sci.,Tokyo Univ.) Genetic diversity in Japanese toads inhabiting the Tokyo metropolitan area A08 15:00-15:15 ○Koshiro Eto, Masafumi Matsui (Grad. Sch. Human Environ. Stud., Kyoto Univ.) Genetic variation of Rana tagoi and Rana sakuraii based on mitochondrial DNA analysis A09 15:15-15:30 Miki Iwanari, Tamotsu Fujii (Fac. of Human Cult. & Sci., Hiroshima Prefectural Univ.), Takeshi Igawa, Mohammed Mafizul Islam, ○Masayuki Sumida (Inst. for Amphibia Biol., Grad. Sch. of Sci., Hiroshima Univ.), Shohei Oumi (Section of Agriculture, Forestry, Amami City), Seiki Katsuren (Okinawa Prefectural Inst. Health and Environ.) Genetic divergences in Rana okinavana, a near threatened species from Okinawa and Amami A10 15:30-15:45 ○Norihiro Kuraishi and Masafumi Matsui (Grad. Sch. Human and Environ. Stud., Kyoto Univ.) Genetic variation among four Polypedates species from the Malay Peninsula to Borneo A11 15:45-16:00 ○Amir Hamidy, Masafumi Matsui (Grad. Sc. Hum. Env. Stud.Kyoto Univ.) Phylogenetic relationships of Leptobrachium from Southeast Asia A12 16:00 - 16:15 ○ Mahmudul Hasan (Inst. for Amphibia Biol., Grad. Sch. of Sci., Hiroshima Univ.), Mohammed Mafizul Islam (Inst. for Amphibia Biol., Grad. Sch. of Sci., Hiroshima Univ.), Md. Mukhlesur Rahman Khan (Dep. Fisheries Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Fisheries, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh 2202, Bangladesh.), Mohammad Shafiqul Alam (Inst. for Amphibia Biol., Grad. Sch. of Sci., Hiroshima Univ.), Takeshi Igawa (Inst. for Amphibia Biol., Grad. Sch. of Sci., Hiroshima Univ.), Mitsuru Kuramoto(Monakata City, Fukuoka, Japan.) and Masayuki Sumida (Inst. for Amphibia Biol., Grad. Sch. of Sci., Hiroshima Univ.). Species diversity and phylogenetic relationships in the frogs from Bangladesh and other Asian countries revealed by nucleotide sequences of mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene 3 Oral Presentations Room B (64C), 7 November 2009 (Sat) (Chairman: Akira Mori) B01 13:00-13:15 ○Dai Suzuki (Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.),Takashi Yabe (Community, Aichi Gakusen Univ.), Tsutomu Hikida (Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.) Hybridization between Mauremys japonica and Chinemys reevesii revealed by genetic methods B02 13:15-13:30 ○Kei Okamoto(Dept. Ecosystem Stud., Grad. Sch. Agr., Tokyo Univ.), Hiroki Tanaka (Hiwasa Sea turtle Mus.), Takashi Ishihara, Naoki Kamezaki(Sea Turtle Asso. Jap./Dept. Ecosystem Stud., Tokyo Univ.) A review of the black turtles (Chelonia mydas agassizii) found in the coastal waters of Japan B03 13:30-13:45 ○Takashi Ishihara, Naoki Kamezaki (Grad. Sch. Agri. Life Sci., Univ. Tokyo), Yoshimasa Matsuzawa, Chiaki Ebisui, Suguru Yamashita (Sea Turtle Asso. Japan) Age and growth rates of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) living in coastal waters of Japan B04 13:45-14:00 ○Naoki Kamezaki, Takashi Ishihara (Sea Turtle Asso. Jap./Dep. Ecosystem Stud., Tokyo Univ.), Kai Sato, Kojiro Mizuno (Sea Turtle Asso. Jap.) Sea turtle ecology in the coastal waters of Japan clarified by photographs taken by divers (Chairman: Sen Takenaka) B05 14:00-14:15 ○Nobuto Kikukawa, Tsutomu Hikida (Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Univ. Kyoto) Diversity and evolution of the skull morphology in the lacertid lizards of the genus Takydromus (Lacertidae: Squamata) B06 14:15-14:30 ○Teppei Jono(Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.) Love song or battle cry? : A comparative study of vocalization in two species of closely-related geckos <Break> B07 14:45-15:00 ○Mamoru Toda (Trop. Biosphere Res. Center, Univ. Ryukyu) Taxonomic status of Japanese populations of Gekko hokouensis and its cryptic species revealed by comparisons with topotypic specimens of G. hokouensis of the Asian continent B08 15:00-15:15 ○Kazuki Kurita(Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.), Mamoru Toda(Trop. Biosphere Res. Center, Univ. Ryukyus), Tsutomu Hikida(Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.) Genetic population structure of Plestiodon marginatus by microsatellite analysis (Chairman: Mamoru Toda) B09 15:15-15:30 ○Taku Okamoto (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan) and Tsutomu Hikida (Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.) Genetic variation of Plestiodon latiscutatus and zoogeography of the Izu Islands, Japan B10 15:30-15:45 ○Isami Ikeuchi (Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.) Comparison of the timing of egg-laying between gecko species of Ampijoroa, Ankarafantsika National Park, a dry deciduous forest in northwestern Madagascar B11 15:45-16:00○Tetsuo Nasu( Dept. Vet. Anat., Fac. Agri., Miyazaki Univ.), Toyofumi Sueyoshi, ( Miyazaki Pref. Mus), Kazuo Hoshino (Hyuga Highschool), Toshitaka Iwamoto (Dep. Biology, Fac. Educ. Cultur., Miyazaki Univ.), Hidetoshi Ota (Inst. Nat. Enviro. Sci. & Mus. Nat. Human Act., Univ. Hyogo) Current status of two feral populations of the Okinawan tree lizard (Japalura polygonata) in southern Kyushu, Japan B12 16:00-16:15○Aoi Ihibashi( Dept. Vet. Anat., Fac. Agri., Miyazaki Univ.), Tetsuo Nasu( Dept. Vet. Anat., Fac. Agri., Miyazaki Univ.), Toyofumi Sueyoshi, ( Miyazaki Pref. Mus), Kazuo Hoshino (Hyuga Highschool), Toshitaka Iwamoto (Dep. Biology, Fac. Educ. Cult., Miyazaki Univ.), Hidetoshi Ota (Inst. Nat. Enviro. Sci. & Mus. Nat. Human Act., Univ. Hyogo ) Morphological characteristics and growth pattern of a feral population of the Okinawa tree lizard (Japalura polygonata) found in Nichinan City, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan <Poster presentations 16:15-17:45> < Banquet 18:30-20:30> 4 Oral Presentations Room A (64B), 8 November 2009 (Sun) (Chairman: Hiroshi Ota) A13 09:00-09:15 ○Zenkichi Shimizu (Soc. Mie Nat. His.) The den of Japanese Giant Salamander, cool in summer and warm in winter A14 09:15-09:30 ○Masafumi Matsui, Kanto Nishikawa, and Natsuhiko Yoshikawa (Grad Sch. Human & Environ Stud, Kyoto Univ) Current status in a feral population of Chinese giant salamander in Kamo River, Kyoto (I) A15 09:30-09:45 ○Takashi Matsuki and Masafumi Matsui(Grad. Sch. Human Environ. Stud., Kyoto Univ.) Age structure of Hynobius nebulosus: Application of skeletochronology for the female population in the breeding season A16 09:45-10:00 ○Yasuchika Misawa(Civil Eng. Eco-Technol. Conslt.) and Masafumi Matsui (Grad. Sch. Hum. Environ. Stud., Kyoto Univ.) Influence of environmental change in larval habitat of Hynobius kimurae in Hachioji, Tokyo A17 10:00-10:15 ○Ami Iwata(Gifu High School Nature and Science Club),Masaki Takagi(Gifu High School),Kenichi Ohara(Gifu Prefectural Fresh Water Fish Research Inst.), Kazuki Kojima, Kazuki Kanno, Anna Koizumi, Yusuke Muto, Kanna Aoyama(Gifu High School Nature and Science Club) Conservation of Hynobius nebulosus in Gifu and analysis of the mitochondorial cytochrome b gene A18 10:15-10:30 ○Yuchi Michigoshi (Grad. Sch. Env. and Inf. Sci., Yokohama Natl. Univ.), Kenji Yoshizawa (Dept. Astro. and Earth. Sci.,Tokyo Gakugei Univ.) , Hiroyuki Matsuda (Grad. Sch. Env. and Inf. Sci., Yokohama Natl. Univ.), Hisahide Honma (Dept. Astro.and Earth. Sci.,Tokyo Gakugei Univ.) ,Toshitaka Iwamoto (Dept. Sci.and Edu., Miyazaki Univ.) Intraspecific phylogeny of Hynobius dunni based on the sequence of mitochondrial DNA <Break> (Chairman: Yasuchika Misawa) A19 10:45-11:00 ○Kenji Yoshizawa (Dept. Astro. and Earth.Sci.,Tokyo Gakugei Univ.),Yuchi Michigoshi(Grad. Sch. Env. & Inf. Sci., Yokohama Natl. Univ.),Hisahide Honma,Masataka Nakata(Dept. Astro.and Earth. Sci.,Tokyo Gakugei Univ.) Dispersal route of Hynobius tokyoensis on the sequences of the mitochondrial DNA. A20 11:00-11:15 ○Natsuhiko Yoshikawa, Masafumi Matsui, Kanto Nishikawa, Gen Aoki (Grad. Sch. Human Environ. Stud., Kyoto Univ.), Koji Sasamori (Aomoro Pref.) Genetic variation of Hynobius nigrescens A21 11:15-11:30 ○Yuko Inoue, Takehito Ueda (Northern Animal Lab.) ,Masami Hasegawa (Dept. Bio., Fac. Toho. Univ.) Population Dynamics of Japanese Newts Cynops pyrrhogaster in Boso Peninsula, Chiba A22 11:30-11:45 ○Koji Mochida (Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.), Minoru Kitada (Grad. Sch. Sci. & Technol., Nagasaki Univ.), Koichi Ikeda (Grad. Sch. Sci. & Technol., Nagasaki Univ.), Tomohiro Takatani (Fac. Fishers, Nagasaki Univ.), Osamu Arakawa (Fac. Fishers, Nagasaki Univ.) Warning displays may function as incorrect signals of toxicity in Cynops pyrrhogaster A23 11:45-12:00 ○Takuma Nishitani, Masayuki Sumida, Atsushi Kurabayashi (Inst. for Amphibia Biol., Grad. Sch. of Sci., Hiroshima Univ.), Seiki Katsuren(Okinawa Prefectural Inst., Health and Environ) Trial of artificially breeding the Okinawan endangered species Echinotriton andersoni <Group photo 12:00-12:15> <Lunch 12:15-13:00> <Business meeting 13:00-14:00> <Poster presentations 14:00-15:30> <Closing address 15:40-> 5 Oral Presentations Room B (64C), 8 November 2009 (Sun) (Chairman: Hajime Moriguchi) B13 09:00-09:15 ○Keisuke Itonaga (Sch. Zool., Univ Tasmania.), Susan M Jones (Sch. Zool., Univ Tasmania.), Erik Wapstra (Sch. Zool., Univ Tasmania.) Maternal effects in a viviparous lizard with a complex placenta: Effects of variation in maternal basking and maternal food quantity during gestation on offspring phenotype B14 09:15-09:30 ○Akira Katayama (Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.), Tsutomu Hikida (Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.) Patterns and allometry in ventral scale size of snakes B15 09:30-09:45 ○Noriko Kidera (Grad. Sch. Engin. Sci., Univ. Ryukyu), Body size variation of Ovophis okinavensis on Okinawajima Island, Japan B16 09:45-10:00 ○Yohei Kadota (Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.) Individual foraging specialization of Himehabu, Ovophis okinavensis in temporal and spatial emergence patterns and response to prey chemical stimuli B17 10:00-10:15 ○Akira Mori(Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.) Ecological diversity of a snake community by a tropical deciduous forest in northwestern Madagascar B18 10:15-10:30 ○Hidetoshi Ota (Inst. Nat. Envir. Sa. & Mus. Nat. Human Act., Univ. Hyogo) Two noteworthy records on the sea snakes from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan (Reptilia:Elapidae) <Break> (Chairman: Hidetoshi Ota) B19 10:45-11:00 ○Tsutomu Hikida (Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.) Reptiles in "Honzo Komoku Keimou" (The Enlightenment of the Great Pharmacopoeia) B20 11:00-11:15 ○Yasuhito Yamamoto (Grad. Sch. Agri.,Tokyo Univ. of Agri. and Tech.) Interspecific hybridization between Rana nigromaculate and Rana porosa brevipoda ‐An examination by the breeding status and land management‐ B21 11:15-11:30 ○Teruhiko Takahara (Med. Insti. Bioreg., Kyushu Univ.), Chinami Mitsuhashi-Ohnishi (Fac. Textile Sci., Kyoto Insti. Tech.), Nao Fujiwara-Tsujii (Nati. Insti. Agrobio. Sci.), Ryohei Yamaoka (Grad. Sch. Sci. Tech., Kyoto Insti. Tech.) Repellent responses of predatory fish to three anuran tadpoles B22 11:30-11:45 ○Kanto Nishikawa (Grad. Sch. Human & Environ. Sci. Stud., Kyoto Univ.), Jian_Ping Jiang (Chengdu Inst. Biol., Chinese Acad. Sci.), Masafumi Matsui (Grad. Sch. Human & Environ. Sci. Stud., Kyoto Univ.), Cang_Song Chen (Zhejiang Mus. Nat. Hist.) Taxonomic status of a Chinese newt Pachytriton granulosus <Group photo 12:00-12:15> <Lunch 12:15-13:00> <Business meeting 13:00-14:00> <Poster presentations 14:00-15:30> <Closing address 15:40-> 6 Poster Presentations Room 64A 7 November 2009 (Sat) 16:15-17:45: Odd Numbers 8 November 2009 (Sun) 14:00-15:30: Even Numbers P01 ○Yuki Taguchi (Kyoto Univ. Grov. Envi/Hyogo Univ. Nature and Env.)・Yosihiro Natuhara (Kyoto Univ. Grov. Envi) Requirements for small agricultural dams to allow the Japanese giant salamander ( Andrias japonicus) to move upstream P02 ○Kaichi Hiroyuki (Shinichi Chuo Junior High School, Fukuyama City) A report about the decrease of the habitat of the Hynobius nebulosus around Fukuyama City P03 ○Takayuki Iwata (Yasugi City Office) The populations of Hynobius nebulosus (High Ground Type) from the lower-lying districts in Chugoku Mountains, Japan P04 ○Kohsuke Akita (Ent. Lab., Grad. Sch. Life and Env. Sci., Osaka Pref. Univ.) Distribution and genetic diversity of the salamander Hynobius yatsui in South Osaka P05 ○Masafumi Yamagami (Kankyo Kagaku Co.,Ltd) Digestive tract contents of juvenile salamander, Hynobius yatsui during winter in Aichi prefecture. P06 ○Song, Jae-Young (National Park Research Institute, National Institute of Biological Resources), Koo, Kyo-Sung Egg sac variation of Hynobius leechii (Urodela:Hynobiidae) in Naro-do Population, Dadohae National park, Korea P07 ○Shigeharu Terui (Environment grasp promotion network), Hiroshi Ota (Bio-system, Biol. Sci., Tohoku Univ.), Hiroki Ishikawa (Chodai Co.,Ltd) The influence of CaCl2 (snow melting agent) on the salamander P08 ○Harumi Noda (Chigasaki-city), Kazuko Maruyama (Fujisawa-city) and Hitoshi Shirata (Chigasaki-city) Remarkable increase of egg masses in Japanese brown frog, Rana Japonica affected by enlargement of open surface water in Kanagawa prefectural Chigasaki-Satoyama park P09 ○Kei Osawa (Faculty of Agriculture and life Science, Hirosaki Univ.) Saiko Shiraki (Faculty of Bioindustry, Tokyo University of Agriculture) Food habits of Rana pirica P10 ○Yuru Yoshimura (Dept. Bio., Grad. Systems Life Sci, Kyusyu Univ.), Eiti Kasuya (Dept. Bio., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyusyu Univ.) The Wrinkled Frog isn’t eaten by the Japanese striped snake P11 ○Ko Ashizawa (Bioresource Sci., Nihon Univ.), Makio Tempaku (Grad. Bioresource Sci., Nihon Univ.), Satoshi Osawa (Bioresource Sci., Nihon Univ.) Seasonal fluctuation of Rana rugosa in Miura hill, Kanagawa prefecture P12 ○Ikuo Miura, Hiromi Ohtani (Amphibian Biol. Inst., Hiroshima Univ.), Mitsuaki Ogata (Preservation and research center, Yokohama) A dual origin of the sex chromosomes and the geographic evolution in the frog Rana rugosa P13 ○Daiichi Ogano (Ichihara High School), Masami Hasegawa (Dept. Bio., Fac. Toho. Univ) Status of Fejervarya Limno charis in South Boso Peninsula, Ⅱ P14 ○Satoshi Osawa, Takatsuna Kuroda and Takehiko Katsuno (Coll. Bioresource Sci., Nihon Unive.) The spawning area of Rhacophorus arboreus atop trees. P15 ○Sumio Okada (Dept. Regional Sci., Tottori Univ.), Tamami Okada (Hibikinomori Mus.) Post breeding migration of the forest tree frog, Rhacophorus arboreus in the Mt. Hyonosen around Tottori and Hyogo prefectures 7 P16 ○Terutake Hayashi (Tochigi Pref. Mus.), Isao Tezuka, Kanoko Nakada, Ryosuke Saka (Herpetol. Soc. Tochigi) Fluctuation in numbers of egg masses spawned by Rhacophorus arboreus, Rana ornativentris, and R.japonicus in some artificial ponds in a dam park for 10 years P17 ○Yutaka Fujii (Dept.Chem.,Facul.Med.,Univ.Fukui), Yukie Tanaka (Dept.Chem.,Facul.Med.,Univ.Fukui), Hisashi Kimoto (Dept. Bio Sci., Fukui Pref. Univ.), Kazunori Kawauchi (Fukui Pref. Amphi. Rept. Soci.) Characterization of crystallin observed in the lens of red-eyed tree frog P18 ○Tomohiko Shimada, Akio Imamura, Nobuhiro Ohnishi (Dept. Bioenvironmental Sci., Kyoto Gakuen Univ.) The border between the paddy fields with many frog species and those with lesser species-- a case study at Kameoka city, Kyoto Pref. P19 ○Dai Togane (Grad. Sch. of Agri, Meiji Univ.), Kinji Fukuyama (Lab. of Biology, Keio Univ.), Noboru Kuramoto (Fac. of Agri, Meiji Univ.) The effectiveness of age determination by skeletochronology of frogs in Iriomote-jima Island P20 ○Mohammad Shafiqul Alam (Inst. for Amphibia Biol., Grad. Sch. of Sci., Hiroshima Univ.), Yoko Hayashi (Dep. Health Sci., Hiroshima Pref. Univ.), Naomi Sano (Dep. Health Sci., Hiroshima Pref. Univ.), Md. Mukhlesur Rahman Khan (Bangladesh Agri. Univ.), Atsushi Kurabayashi (Inst. for Amphibia Biol., Grad. Sch. of Sci., Hiroshima Univ.), Tamotsu Fujii (Dep. Health Sci., Hiroshima Pref. Univ.), Masayuki Sumida (Inst. for Amphibia Biol., Grad. Sch. of Sci., Hiroshima Univ.) Complete mitochondrial genomes and gene rearrangements in two Bangladesh frog species Hoplobatrachus tigerinus and Euphlyctis hexadactylus (Family Dicroglossidae) P21 ○Hisao Nambu (Toyama Science Mus.), Tamotsu Fukuda (Toyamaminami High School), Yoshimasa Araki (Wild Eyes). Spawning site of the Bufo in the mountain stream of the Nozumi River, during 2009, Toyama Prefecture P22 ○Kinji Fukuyama (Dept. Bio., Keio Univ.), Chieko Matsumoto (Kaeru Tanteidan), Mitsugi Matsumoto (Taketomi Town), Kiyotaka Sano, and Takashi Kobayashi (Crested Serpent Eagle Research) Monitoring of Anuran amphibians with automatic recording devices in Sakishima Islands, Okinawa P23 ○Masanao Honda (Grad. Sch. Life Environ. Stud., Univ. Tsukuba), Atsushi Tominaga (Res. Center Environ. Risk, Natl. Inst. Environ. Stud), Satoshi Tanaka (Okinawa Pref. Mus.), Masafumi Matsui (Grad. Sch. Hum. Environ. Stud., Kyoto Univ.), Hidetoshi Ota (Inst. Nat. Environ. Sci. Mus. Nat. Hum. Activ., Univ. Hyogo) Genetic differentiation of Echinotriton andersoni (Amphibia: Salamandridae) between the Okinawa and Amami Groups, Ryukyu Archipelago P24 ○Munetaka Nakagawa (Society of Environmental Biology) Estimation of potential habitat of unrecorded species according to the interview: (Distribution of Amphibians and Reptiles in Minami Yamashiro Area in the south of Kyoto Prefecture) P25 ○Takashi Yabe (Sch. Community Policy, Aichi Gakusen Univ.) Distribution pattern and habitat use of the freshwater turtles in Okazaki, central Japan, Aichi prefecture. P26 ○Masashi Aoyama (Dept.Biol., Grad.Sch.Sci., Toho Univ.), Masami Hasegawa ((Dept.Biol., Grad.Sch.Sci., Toho Univ.) Distribution of freshwater turtles in Taguri river P27 ○Yasuhiro Kosuge (Turtles network)・Raita Kobayashi (Grad. Sch. Agr. Life Sci., Univ. Tokyo) Relationship between the distribution of injured Japanese freshwater turtles and mammals in Chiba Prefecture P28 ○Tomomi Kataoka, Maho Hayashi, Masahiro Sato (NPO Eco-works) The relations between rates of capture and carapace length of red-eared sliders and Reeves' pond turtles in two types of traps P29 ○Makio TEMPAKU(Grad . Bioresource Sci., Nihon Univ), Satoshi OSAWA, Takehiko KATSUNO(Coll . Bioresource Sci., Nihon Univ) Population structure and food habits of snapping turtles Chelydra serpentina in the Komatsugaike pond, Kanagawa prefecture 8 P30 ○Mari Yuutani(Dept. Ecosystem Stud., Grad. Sch. Agr., Tokyo Univ.), Hiromasa Mizuno(Sea Turtle Asso. Jap.),Naoki Kemezaki(Sea Turtle Asso. Jap./Dept. Ecosystem Stud., Tokyo Univ.) External injuries and their distributions in the case of wild loggerhead turtles P31 ○Mari Taniguchi (Sea Turtle Asso. Jap./ Sea Turtle Park of Kiho Town)Naoki Kamezaki (Sea Turtle Asso. Jap./Dep. Ecosystem Stud., Tokyo Univ.), Sea turtles stranded in Shichirimihama , Mie Prefecture P32 ○Satoko Tsuchikane, Tadashi Miyashita (Grad.Sch.Agri.Life Sci., Univ.Tokyo) Suitable habitat and position as predator in grassland ecosystem of Takydromus tachydromoides P33 ○Sen Takenaka (Sch. Biol. Sci. Eng., Tokai Univ.) Trends found in the variation of reproductive characteristics of Takydromus lizards P35 ○Min-Ho Chang (Dept. Sci. Edu., Jeju Natnl. Univ.), Hidetoshi Ota (Inst. Nat. Envir. Sci., Univ. Hyogo), Jae-young Song (Res. Inst., Korean Natnl. Park Manag. Bureau), and Hong-Shik Oh (Dept. Sci. Edu., Jeju Natnl. Univ.) Movements of the small sized grass lizard (Takydromus wolteri) on Jeju Island, Korea P36 ○Masato Ohbuchi, Tsutomu Hikida (Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.) Pheromones in lizards, Plestiodon japonicus and P. latiscutatus P37 ○Yuki Koizumi, Tsutomu Hikida (Dept. Zool., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.) Molecular phylogeny of the two smooth skinks, Scincella boettgeri and S. formosensis (Squamata: Scincidae), in the East Asian Islands. P38 ○Hiroo Takahashi (Jpn. Wildl. Res. Cent.), Mitsuhiko Toda (Jpn. Wildl. Res. Cent.), and (Trop. Biosphere Res. Cent., Univ Ryukyu) Distribution pattern of green anole in Naha city, Okinawa. Mamoru Toda P39 ○Ushio Kawai (Dept.Zool.,Grad.Scho.Sci.,Kyoto Univ. Potential Habitat of Gekko yakuensis and G. hokouensis in Yakushima, Kagoshima prefecture P40 ○Shitomi Yuko (Grad. Sch. Hum. Sci. Env., Univ. Hyogo), Yurie Yamamoto (Grad. Sch. Eng .Sci., Univ. Ryukyus) Hidetoshi Ota (Inst. Nat. Env. Sci., Univ.Hyogo) Influence of incubation temperature on the locomotor performance in hatchlings of the two Gekko species on Okinawajima Island, Japan (Reptilia:Gekkonidae) P41 ○Yohei Yamasaki (Dept. Anim. Sci., Teikyo Univ. Sci. Tech.) Yoshihisa Mori (Dept. Anim. Sci., Teikyo Univ. Sci. Tech.) Environmental condition and seasonal change for emergence of Japanese odd-tooth snake, Dinodon orientale, in Uenohara, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The list of participants to the meeting(Each circle shows the social gathering participant) 9 ○Akita, Kohsuke ○Kojima, Yosuke ○Sengoku, Shouichi ○Akita, Yoshinori ○Akiyama, Shigeharu ○Aoyama, Masashi P26 Arao, Tomoya Ashizawa, Ko P11 ○Chang, Min-Ho P35 ○Doi, Toshio ○Ebisuya, Hideo P04 ○Komaki, Shohei ○Koo, Kyo-Soung ○Kosuge, Yasuhiro P27 ○Kuraishi, Norihiro A10 ○Kurita, Kazuki B08 ○Maeda, Norio ○Mahmudul, Hasan A12 ○Maruyama, Kazuko P08 ○Shibata, Rintaro ○Shimada, Tomohiko P18 ○Shimizu, Zenkichi A13 ○Shinohara, Nozomu ○Shirata, Hitoshi ○Shitomi, Yuko P40 ○Song, Jae-Young P06 ○Sueyosi, Toyofumi ○Ento, Kyoko ○Endo, Satoko ○Eto, Koshiro A08 ○Fujii, Yutaka P17 ○Fujita, Hiroyuki ○Fujitani, Takeshi ○Fukuyama, Kinji P22 ○Goka, Koichi A05 ○Maso, Sachiko ○Matsui, Kumi A03 ○Matsui, Masafumi A14 ○Matsuki, Takashi A15 ○Michigoshi, YuchiA18 ○Misawa, Yasuchika A16 ○Miura, Ikuo P12 ○Mochida, Koji A22 ○Sumida, Masayuki A09 ○Suzuki, Dai B01 ○Tada, Noriko ○Tagami, Masataka ○Taguchi, Yuki P01 Takagi, Masaki Takahara, Teruhiko B21 ○Takahashi, Hiroo P38 ○Goris, Richard ○Hamidy, Amir A11 ○Hase, Kazuko A07 ○Hasegawa, Iwao ○Hayashi, Maho ○Hayashi, Terutake P16 ○Hayashi, Toshihiko ○Hikida, Tsutomu B19 ○Mohammad, Shafiqul Alam P20 ○Mori, Akira B17 ○Morita, Etsuo ○Morita, Toshihiro ○Moriguchi, Hajime ○Mukawa, Megumi ○Naito, Risa ○Nakagawa, Munetaka P24 Takeda, Masayoshi ○Takenaka, Sen P33 Takeuchi, Masakazu Takeuchi, Masami ○Tanabe, Shingo ○Tanaka, koji ○Tanaka-Ueno, Tomoko ○Taniguchi, Mari P31 ○Honda, Masanao P23 ○Hoshino, Isao ○Igari, Chie ○Ikeuchi, Isami B10 ○Inoue, Yuko A21 Ishibashi, Aoi B10 ○Ishihara, Takashi B03 Ishikawa, Hironori ○Nambu, Hisao P21 Nasu, Tetsuo B11 ○Nishibori, Tomoko ○Nishikawa, Kanto A24 ○Nishitani, Takuma A23 ○Niwano, Yutaka ○Ogano, Daiichi P13 Ogata, Mitsuaki A02 Tempaku, Makio P29 ○Teraoka, Seiji Terui, Shigeharu P07 ○Toda, Mamoru B07 ○Toda, Mitsuhiko ○Togane, Dai P19 Togashi, Tadashi ○Tominaga, Atsushi A06 ○Itonaga, Keisuke B13 ○Iwata, Ami A17 ○Iwata, Takayuki P03 ○Jono, Teppei B06 ○Kadota, Yohei B16 ○Kaichi, Hiroyuki P02 ○Kameda, Momoko A04 ○Kamezaki, Naoki B04 ○Ohbuchi, Masato P36 ○Oh, Hong-Shik ○Okawa, Hiroshi ○Ohnishi, Taku Okabe, Kenji ○Okada, Sumio P15 ○Okada, Tamami ○Okamoto, Kei B02 ○Toriba, Michihisa Tsuchikane, Satoko ○Ueda, Takehito Yasumori, Akifumi ○Yoshimura, Masako ○Yuasa, Yoshiaki ○Yabe, Takashi P25 ○Yamagami, Masafumi ○Kanao, Mitsuhiro ○Kataoka, Tomomi P28 ○Katayama, Akira B14 ○Kawai, Ushio P39 ○Kidera, Noriko B15 ○Kikukawa, Nobuto B05 ○Kimura, Yuki Koda, Mitsuo ○Okamoto, Taku B09 Osawa, Kei P09 Osawa, Satoshi P14 ○Ota, Hidetoshi B18 ○Ota, Hiroshi ○Otani, Sean ○Park, Su-Gon ○Saka, Masahiro A01 ○Yamamoto, Yasuhito B20 Yamasaki, Yohei P41 ○Yoshikawa, Natsuhiko A20 ○Yoshimura, Yuri P10 ○Yoshizawa, Kenji A19 ○Yuutani, Mari P30 ○Kobayashi, Satoshi ○Koizumi, Yuki P37 Kojima, Kazuki ○Sakamoto, Mariko ○ Sakata, Kazuhiro ○ Sato, Takanori 10 P32 P05