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1. Yabumoto, Y. 1979. Leiognathus bindus and L. splendens, (Pisces: Leiognathidae) first record from Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (1): 61-65, fig. 1. (in Japanese with English abstract ) 

2. Uyeno, T. and Y. Yabumoto. 1980. Early Cretaceous freshwater fishes from northern Kyushu, Japan. II. Restoration of two species of the clupeoid fish genus Diplomystus. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (2): 25-31, figs. 1-5.  

3. Yabumoto, Y. 1980. Caudal skeleton in three genera of Leiognathid fishes. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (2): 33-39, figs 1-4. (in Japanese with English abstract ) 

4. Yabumoto, Y. and T. Uyeno. 1981. Osteology of the clupeiform fish, genus Hyperlophus (I). Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (3): 69-78.

5. Yabumoto, Y. 1981. Squamation patterns in leiognathid fishes and implication on the speciation. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (3): 79-84, fig. 1. (in Japanese with English abstract )  

6. Yoshitaka Yabumoto and Teruya Uyeno. 1982. Osteology of the clupeiform fish, genus Hyperlophus (II). Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (4): 77-102, figs. 8-9.  

7. Yabumoto,Y., Y. Yogo and H. Tsukahara. 1984. First record of the leiognathid fish, Gazza minuta from Japan. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 31(3): 327-330, figs. 1-2.

8. Uyeno, T., Y. Yabumoto and N. Kuga. 1984. Fossil fishes of Ashiya Group -(I) Late Oligocene elasmobranchs from Islands of Ainoshima and Kaijima, Kitakyushu. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (5): 135-142, pls. 1-5. (in Japanese with English abstract)

9. Yabumoto, Y. and T. Uyeno. 1984. Osteology of the rice fish, Oryzias latipes. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (5): 143-161, figs. 1-17. (in Japanese with English abstract)

10. Yabumoto, Y. 1987. Oligocene lamnid shark of the genus Carcharodon from Kitakyushu, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (6): 239-264, figs. 1-18, pls. 1-4.

11. Yabumoto, Y. 1987. Pleistocene gobiid fishes of the genus Rhinogobius from Kusu Basin, Oita Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (7): 111-119, figs. 1-6, pls. 1-2.

12. Yabumoto, Y. 1988. Pleistocene clupeid and engraulidid fishes from the Kokubu Group in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (8): 55-74, figs. 1-18, pls. 1-2.

13. Nakae, S., M. Ozaki, M. Ota, Y. Yabumoto, H. Matsuura and S. Tomita. 1988. Geology of the Kokura district. With Geological Sheet Map at 1:50,000. Geological Survey of Japan, viii+126 pp., 47 figs. (in Japanese with English abstract).

14. Yabumoto, Y. 1989. A new Eocene lamnoid shark, Carcharodon nodai, from Omuta in northern Kyushu, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (9): 111-116, figs. 1-3, pl. 1.

15. Yabumoto, Y. and T. Uyeno. 1990. Fish fossils. (The Pleistocene fish fossils from the Katanoyama Formation in Nishinoomote City, Kagoshima, Japan). The first report on the Katanoyama fossil assemblage in Nishinoomote City. Nishinoomote City Board of Education, pp. 17-21. (in Japanese)

16. Yamada, M., S. Sueta, Y. Hanada, R. Takeuchi, K. Kido, Y. Yabumoto and Y. Yoshida. 1990. The appearance of marine animals during the improvement of water quality in Dokai Bay, northern Kyushu, Japan. NIppon Suisan Gakkaishi, 58(6): 1029-1036, figs. 1-4. (in Japanese with English abstract )

17. Yabumoto, Y. 1994. Early Cretaceous Freshwater fish fauna in Kyushu, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (13): 107-254, figs. 1-96, pls. 36-59. 

18. Yabumoto, Y. and T. Uyeno. 1994. A new Miocene ponyfish of the genus Leiognathus (Pisces, Leiognathidae) from Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin National Science Museum, Tokyo, Ser. C (Geology & Paleontology), 20(2): 67-77.

19.  Zhang, C., Y. Yabumoto and C. Yaling. 1994. The scanning electromicroscopy of gill, olfactory organ and barbel in Triplophysa (Hedinichthys) yarkandensis yarkandensis (Pisces: Cobitididae). Sinozoologia, (11): 221-225, pls. 1-2. 1994. 

20. Yabumoto, Y. and T. Uyeno. 1994. Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic fish faunas of Japan. The Island Arc (1994) 3: 255-269, fig. 1, tabs. 1-23.

21. Yabumoto, Y. 1995. Correlation of the Early Cretaceous lacustrine beds between Kyushu of Japan and southeastern China on the Basis of a comparison of the fish fossils. Sixth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Short Papers, 1995, pp. 23-28, figs. 1-4.  21.

22. Goto, M., T. Uyeno and Y. Yabumoto. 1996. Summary of Mesozoic elasmobranch remains from Japan. Mesozoic Fishes - Systematics and Paleoecology, G. Arratia & G. Viohl (eds): 73-82, 5 figs. 1996. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munchen, Germany.

23. Yabumoto, Y., M. Goto, K. Yano, and T. Uyeno. 1997. Dentition of a female megamouth, Megachasma pelagios, collected from Hakata Bay, Japan. pp. 63-75, figs. 1-15. Biology of the Megamouth Shark edited by K. Yano, J. F. Morrissey, Y. Yabumoto, K. Nakaya. 1997, xvi+203 pp., Tokai University Press, Tokyo.

24. Yano, K., M. Goto and Y. Yabumoto. 1997. Dermal and mucous denticles of a female megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios, from Hakata Bay, Japan. pp. 77-91, figs. 1-14. Biology of the Megamouth Shark edited by K. Yano, J. F. Morrissey, Y. Yabumoto, K. Nakaya. 1997, xvi+203pp., Tokai University Press, Tokyo.

25. Yano, K., Y. Yabumoto, H. Ogawa, T. Hasegawa, K. Naganobu, S. Matumura, Y. Misuna and K. Matumura. 1997. X-ray observations on vertebrae and dentition of a megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios, form Hakata Bay, Japan. pp. 21-29, figs. 1-7. Biology of the Megamouth Shark edited by K. Yano, J. F. Morrissey, Y. Yabumoto, K. Nakaya. 1997, xvi+203pp., Tokai University Press, Tokyo.

26. Yabumoto, Y., Y. Hasegawa, Y. Okazaki, A. Koizumi and T. Muramatsu. 1997. Miocene acipenseriform fish remains from the Tomikusa Group in the southern part of Nagano Prefecture, Central Japan. Bulletin of the Iida City Museum, (7): 117-122, figs. 1-3. (in Japanese) 

27. Evans, S., M. Manabe, E. Cook, R. Hirayama, S. Isaji, C. Nicholas, D. Unwin and Y. Yabumoto. 1998. An Early Cretaceous Assemblage from Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, (14): 183-186, fig. 1.

28. Evans, S. E. and Y. Yabumoto. 1998. A lizard from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil. N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Mh. 1998(6): 349-364, figs. 1-8. 

29. Nakae, S., M. Ozaki, M. Ota, Y. Yabumoto, H. Matsuura and S. Tomita. 1998. Geological Sheet Map at 1: 50,000, Geol. Surv. Japan, 126 pp. , 1998 (in Japanese with English abstract 5 pp.)

30. Yano, K., Y. Yabumoto, S. Tanaka, O. Tsukada and M. Furuta. 1999. Capture of a mature female megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios, from Mie, Japan. Proc. 5th Indo-Pac. Fish Conf., Noumea, 1997, Seret B. & J.-Y. Sire, eds. Paris: Soc. Fr. Ichthyol., 1999: 335-349, figs. 1-7.

31. Uyeno, T., K. Sakamato, Y. Yabumoto, Y. Suda and K. Hirao. 1999. On three species of fossil fishes described from a Middle Miocene bed in Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Tottori Prefectural Museum, (36): 1-23, figs. 1-19. (in Japanese) 

32. Uyeno, T., Y. Yabumoto, E. Kitabayashi, T. Aoki and Y. Tomida. 2000. Paleoichthological survey of a Middle Pleistocene lacustrine bed in the Kusu Basin, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, (32): 55-75, figs. 1-2, pls. 1-10. (in Japanese with English summary) 

33. Yabumoto, Y. and S.-Y. Yang. 2000. The first record of the Early Cretaceous freshwater fish, Wakinoichthys aokii, from Korea. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (19): 105-110, figs. 1-4.

34. Yabumoto, Y. 2000. Fossil fishes. In: Fossils of the Kuwajima "Kaseki-kabe" (Fossil-bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan. pp. 46-49, pls. 14-15, Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. (in Japanese)

35. Yabumoto, Y. and T. Uyeno. 2000. Inabaperca taniurai, a new genus and species of Miocene percoid fish from Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of National Science of Museum, Tokyo, Ser. C(Geology & Paleontology) 26(3,4): 93-106, pls. 1-7. (Yabumoto, Y. and T. Uyeno) 

36. Grande, L., J. Fan, Y. Yabumoto, and W. E. Bemis. 2002. Protopsephurus liui, a well-preserved primitive paddlefish (Acipenseriformes: Polyodontidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China. The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22(2): 209-237, figs. 1-20, tabs.1-3.

37. Yabumoto, Y. 2002. A new coelacanth from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia). Paleontological Research Vol. 6(4): 343-350, figs. 1-4.

38. Yabumoto, Y. 2002. Early Cretaceous freshwater fishes from the Myodani Formation of the Tetori Group along Omichidani river in Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan. Report of the Mesozoic Tetori Group along Tetori River (2002), pp. 43-44. (in Japanese). (1)

39. Shirai, S., Y. Yabumoto, I.-S. Kim, and C.-C. Zhang. 2003. Phylogeny of sinipercid fishes and their relatives inferred from mtDNA cytochrome b gene: a preliminary study. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A, (1): 45-49, figs. 1-3. 

40. Yabumoto Y. and A. Neuman. 2004. A coelacanth scale from the Upper Triassic Pardonet Formation, British Columbia, Canada. Paleontological Research, 8(4): 337-340, figs. 1-3.(2)

41. Hirao, K., T. Yano, T. Uyeno, Y. Yabumoto and T. Aoki. 2005. Stratigraphy and fossil fishes of the Fuganji Formation at Miyanoshita, Kokufu-cho, Tottori, japan. Bull. Tottori Pref. Museum, 42: 3-20, figs. 1-8. (in Japanese).  

42. Yabumoto, Y. 2005. Early Cretaceous freshwater fishes from the Tetori Group, central Japan. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A, 3: 135-143, figs. 1-7.

43. Yabumoto, Y. and T. Uyeno. 2005. New materials of a Cretaceous coelacanth, Mawsonia lavocati Tabaste from Morocco. Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, Ser. C, 31, pp. 39-49, figs. 1-10.(3)

44. Yabumoto, Y., Y. Sakamoto and H. Otsuka. 2005. Revision of the Pleistocene clupeid fish Clupanodon tanegashimaensis (Saheki, 1929) from Tanegashima, Southwest Japan. Paleontological Research, vol. 9, no. 4. pp. 299-304, figs. 1-4.

45. Yabumoto, Y., S.-Y. Yang, and T.-W. Kim. 2006. Early Cretaceous freshwater fishes from Japan and Korea. J. Paleont. Soc. Korea, 22(1): 119-132, figs. 1-9.

46. Yoshimura, H., H. Sekiguchi, and Y. Yabumoto. 2007. Museum personnel's opinions on mobile guidance systems. J. Museum Education, 32(1): 61 - 72, figs. 1 - 2.

47. Yabumoto, Y. and T. Uyeno. 2007. Tottoriblennius hiraoi, a New Genus and Species of Miocene Blennioid Fish from Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., Ser. C, 33: 81–87,  figs. 1-4.

48. Yabumoto, Y., Y. Sakamoto, and H. Liu. 2008. Osteology of the cyprinid fish, Hemiculter leucisculus. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A, 6: 33-48, figs. 1-13.

49. Uyeno, T. and Y. Yabumoto. 2007. Origin of extant coelacanths. The Coelacanth, Fathom the Mystery 2007, International Symposium Proceedings, Nov. 24, 2007, pp. 24 – 26, figs. 1-5. (4)

50. Yabumoto, Y. 2008. Museum network contributes to paleontological outreach –Attempts throught taraveling exhibtions-. Fossils, The Palaeontological Society of Japan, 83: 11-14.

51. Yabumoto, Y. 2008. A new Early Cretaceous osteoglossomorph fish from Japan, with comments on the origin of the Osteoglossiformes. Mesozoic Fishes 4 – Homology and Phylogeny, G. Arratia, H.-P. Schultze & M. V. H. WILSON (eds.): pp. 217-228, 11 figs., 3 apps.

52.  Yabumoto, Y. 2008. A new Mesozoic coelacanth from Brazil (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia). Paleontological Research, 12(4): 329 - 343,  figs. 1 - 10, app. 1. (5)

53. Brito, P., Y. Yabumoto and L. Grande. 2008. New amiid fish (Halecomorphi; Amiiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation, Araripe Basin, Northeast Brazil. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28(4); 1007 - 1014, figs. 1 - 8.

54. Yabumoto, Y. and T. Uyeno. 2009. Coreoperca maruoi, a new species of freshwater percoid fish from the Miocene of Iki Island, Nagasaki, Japan. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 7: 103-112, figs. 1-7. 

55.  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.

56. 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.

57. 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.

58. 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.

59. Brito, M. Paulo and Yoshitaka 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.

60. Miyata, S., Y. Yabumoto, and M. Hirano. Osteology of the cyprinid fish, Zacco platypus (Temminck and Schlegel, 1846). Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 9: 137-155, figs. 1-14.

61. Miyata, S., Y. Yabumoto, and M. Hirano. 2012. Osteology of the cyprinid fish, Candidia barbatus (Regan, 1908). Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 9: 101-121, figs. 1-18.

62. Yabumoto, Y., M. Iwata, Y. Abe, and T. Uyeno. 2012. Function of the pseudomaxillary fold in the mouth opening of the coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae. Ichthyol Res, 59(1): 164-168, figs. 1-3. (6)

63. Hirao, K., T. Uyeno, Y. Yabumoto, T. Aoki, G. Sano, and T. Yano. 2012. Miocene shallow marine fish fossils from Miyanoshita, Tottori City, Southwest Japan. Earth Science (Chikyu Kagaku), 66(1): 1-4, Figs. 1-2.

64. Yabumoto, Y., Y. Hikida and T. Nishino. 2012. Apsopelix miyazakii, a new species of crossognathid fish (Teleostei) from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan. Paleontological Research, 16(1):37-46, figs. 1-7.

65. Nazarkin, M. V., Y. Yabumoto and A. Urabe. 2013. A new Miocene three-spined stickleback (Pisces: Gasterosteidae) from Central Japan. Paleontological Research, 16(4):318–328, figs. 1-8.

66. Yabumoto, Y. 2013. Kokuraichthys tokuriki n. gen. and sp., Early Cretaceous osteoglossomorph fish in Kyushu, Japan. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 11: 67-72, figs. 1-3.

67. Yabumoto, Y. and P. M. Brito. 2013. The second record of a mawsoniid coelacanth from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil, with comments on the development of coelacanths. Mesozoic Fishes 5 – Global Diversity and Evolution, G. Arratia, H.-P. Schultze & M. V. H. Wilson (eds.): pp. 489-497, 5 figs., 1 tab. (7)

68. Yabumoto, Y. and L. Grande. 2013. A new Miocene amiid fish, Amia godai from Kani, Gifu, Central Japan. Paleontological Research, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 113-126, figs. 1-8.

69. Fushimi, K., Y. Yabumoto, M. Manabe and S. Ikemoto. 2014. Possibility of Wi-Fi for exhibit explanation in museums, a trial and practice of exhibit explanation. Tenjigaku, Journal of the Japan Society for Exhibition studies, (51): 88-91, figs. 1-4. (in Japanese)

70. Yabumoto, Y. and T. Uyeno. 2013. How coelacanths survived beyond the Cretaceous extinction? Coelacanth evolution based on fossils and the dissection of extant coelacanth. Iden, vol. 68, no. 3: 245−250, figs. 1-6. (in Japanese) (8)

71. Yabumoto, Y. 2014. Sinamia kukurihime, a new Early Cretaceous amiiform fish from Ishikawa, Japan. Paleontological Research, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 211-223, figs. 1-8, tabs. 1-2. 

72. Berrell, W. R., J. Alvarado-Orteda, Y. Yabumoto, and S. W. Salisbury. 2014.  The first record of the ichthyodectiform fish Cladocyclus from eastern Gondwana: A new species from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 59(4): 903-920, figs. 1-8, app. 1.

73. Komatsu, T., Y. Miyake, M. Manabe, R. Hirayama, Y. Yabumoto and T. Tsuihiji. 2014. Stratigraphy, fossils and depositional environments of the Upper Cretaceous Himenoura Group on the Koshikijima Islands. Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol. 120, Supplement, p. 19 -39, figs. 1-19.

74. Nazarkin, M. V. and Y. Yabumoto. 2015. New fossils of Neogene pricklebacks (Actinopterygii: Stichaeidae) from East Asia. Zoosystematica  Rossica, 24(1): 128–137, figs. 1-4.

75. Yabumoto, Y. and P. M. Brito. 2016. A new Triassic coelacanth, Whiteia oishii (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from West Timor, Indonesia. Paleontological Research, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 233–246, figs. 1-13. (9)

76. Yabumoto, Y. 2017. A revision of the amiiform fish genus Sinamia with phylogeny of Sinamiidae. Paleontological Research, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 76–92, figs. 1-13.

77. Yabumoto, Y., S. Ishigaki and E. Taguchi. 2017. A Miocene scombrid fish tribe Scomberomorini from the Bihoku, Group in Niimi, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Bull. Kitakyushu, Mus. Nat. Hum. Hist., Ser. A, (15): 5-9, figs. 1-5.

78. Micklich, M., A. F. Bannikov and Y. Yabumoto. 2017. First record of ponyfishes (Perciformes: Leiognathidae) from the Oligocene of the Grube Unterfeld (“Frauenweiler”) clay pit. Paläontologische Zeitschrift · June 2017, DOI: 10.1007/s12542-017-0340-1.

79. Brito, P. M., C, Cupello, Y, Yabumoto, J. V. Hell, M. Brunet, O. Otero. 2018. First occurrence of a mawsoniid (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia), Mawsonia soba sp. nov., in pre-Aptian Cretaceous deposits from Cameroon. Cretaceous Research, 86: 91−96, figs. 1-3.

80. Meunier, F. J., C. Cupello, Y. Yabumoto, P. M. Brito. 2018. On the diet of the Lower Cretaceous coelacanth Axelrodichthys araripensis (Actinistia: Mawsoniidae). Cybium, 42(1): 105-111. (10)

81. Miyata, S., Y. Yabumoto and H. Hirano. 2018. Nipponocypris takayamai, a New Species of Cyprinid Fish from the Nogami Formation (Middle Pleistocene) in the Southern Part of the Kusu Basin, Oita, Japan. Paleontological Research, 22(3): 218-238, figs. 1-12, Appendixes 1-2. doi:10.2517/2017PR021.

82. Yabumoto, Y., K. Hirose and P. M. Brito. 2018. A new ichthyodectiform fish, Amakusaichthys goshouraensis gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Himenoura Group in Goshoura, Amakusa, Kumamoto, Japan. Historical Biology, , DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2018.1497022.

83. Yabumoto, Y. and M. V. Nazarkin. 2018. A new Miocene herring, Clupea macrocephala, from Sakaki Town, Hanishina County, Nagano, Japan. Paleontological Research, 22(4): 352-363. http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.2517/2018PR002.

84. Yabumoto Y. and P. M Brito. 2019. Preface. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 17, Special Issue on coelacanths: 1–2.

85. Lionel C., C. Cupello, Y. Yabumoto, L. Fragoso, U. Deesri and P. M. Brito. 2019. Phylogeny and evolutionary history of mawsoniid coelacanths. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 17, Special Issue on coelacanths: 3–14. (11)

86. Yabumoto, Y., P. M. Brito, M. Iwata and Y. Abe. 2019. A new Triassic coelacanth, Whiteia uyenoteruyai (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from Madagascar and paleobiogeography of the family Whiteiidae. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 17, Special Issue on coelacanths: 15–28. (12)

87. Cupello, C., G. Clément, F. J. Meunier, M. Herbin, Y. Yabumoto and P. M. Brito. 2019. The long-time adaptation of coelacanths to moderate deep water: reviewing the evidences. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 17, Special Issue on coelacanths: 29–36. (13)

88. Iwata, M., Y. Yabumoto, T. Saruwatari, S. Yamauchi, K. Fujii, R. Ishii, T. Mori, F. D. Hukom, Dirhamsyah, T, Peristiwady, A. Syahailatua, K. W. A. Masengi, I. F. mandagi, F. Pangalila and Y. Abe. 2019. Field surveys on the Indonesian coelacanth, Latimeria menadoensis using remotely operated vehicles from 2005 to 2015. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 17, Special Issue on coelacanths: 49–56. (14)

89. Iwata, M., Y. Yabumoto, T. Saruwatari, S. Yamauchi, K. Fujii, R. Ishii, T. Mori, F. D. Hukom, Dirhamsyah, T, Peristiwady, A. Syahailatua, K. W. A. Masengi, I. F. mandagi, F. Pangalila and Y. Abe. 2019. Observation of the first juvenile Indonesian coelacanth, Latimeria menadoensis from Indonesian waters with comparison to embryos of Latimeria chalumnae.  Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 17, Special Issue on coelacanths: 57–66. (15)

90. Saruwatari, T., M. Iwata, Y. Yabumoto, F. D. Hukom, T. Persistiwady and Y. Abe. 2019. A detailed morphological measurement of the seventh specimen of the Indonesian coelacanth, Latimeria menadoensis, with a compilation of current morphological data of the species. Bull. Kitakyushu Muss  Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 17, Special Issue on coelacanths: 67–80. (16)

91. Hirose, K., Y. Yabumoto and P. M. Brito. 2019. An ichthyodectiform fish, Amakusaichthys goshouraensis (new Japanese name: Amakusagoshouramukashiuo) from the upper Cretaceous Himenoura Group in Goshoura, Amakua, Kumamto, Japan. Fossils, (105): 1–2.  (in Japanese)

92. Yabumoto, Y. 2019. Mesozoic and Cenozoic osteichthyan fish fossils from Japan based on the specimens deposited in Japanese museums and their potential. Fossils, (105): 21–32, figs. 1-9. (in Japanese with English Abstract)

93. Nomura, R. and Y. Yabumoto. 2019. A clupeid fish fossil from the Miocene Koura Formation distributed in the central part of Shimane Peninsula, Japan and its significance for regarding paleoenvironment of the Koura Formation and paleogeography on the southwestern part of Japan. Shimanekenchigakukaishi, (34): 21–24, figs. 1-8. (in Japanese)

94. Iseki, E., K, Fushimi, Y. Yabumoto, S. Ikemoto and M. Manabe. 2019. An experimental trial of mobile device web-based explanations fro museum exhibitions. Journal of Graphic Science of japan, vol. 53, no. 1/Issue no. 160 March 2019: 17–24, figs. 1–10. (in Japanese with English Abstract)

95. Fragoso, L. G. C., P. Brito and Y. Yabumoto. 2019. Axelrodichthys araripensis Maisey, 1986 revisited. Historical Biology, 2019, 31(10): 1350–1372, figs. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2018.1454443.  (17)

96. Yabumoto, Y. 2020. Siniperca ikikoku, a new species of freshwater percoid fish from the Miocene of Iki Island, Nagasaki, Japan. Paleontological Research, vol. 24, no. 3: 226–237, figs. 1–9, tab. 1. doi: 10.2517/2019PR016.

97. Yabumoto, Y. and M. V. Nazarkin. 2020. Clupea hanishinaensis nomen novum, a replacement name for the Miocene clupeid fish Clupea macrocephala Yabumoto and Nazarkin, 2018 from Nagano, Japan. Paleontological Research, vol. 24, no. 3: 238. doi: 10.2517/2019PR011.

98. Sakai, Y., M. Manabe, R. Matsumoto, Y. Yabumoto and R. Hirayama. 2020. Vertebrate fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Itsuki Formation of the Tetori Group in the Kuzuryu district, Ono City, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan. Mem. Fukui Pref. Dinosaur Mus. 19:105‒112, figs. 1-4, tab. 1. 

99. Iseki, E., K. Fushimi, Y. Yabumoto, S. Ikemoto, M. Manabe and K. Takada. 2021. Designing Smartphone Displays with a Focus on the Line Thickness of Figures and Pictograms ─ A Survey, and Validation, of Legibility and Intelligibility ─ .  Journal of Graphic Science of Japan, Vol. 55 No. 1 /Issue no. 165: 26–36, figs. 1–14, tabs. 1–4.

100. Yabumoto, Y. and M. V. Nazarkin. 2021. A new Miocene scorpaenoid fish, Raususetarches sakurai gen. et sp. nov. (Teleostei: Scorpaeniformes) from Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan. Paleontological Research, vol. 25, no. 2 pp. 93–104, figs. 1–9, tab. 1. 

101. Hisarawa, T., C. Cupello, P. M. Brito, Y. Yabumoto, S. Isogai, M. Hoshino, and K. Uesugi. 2021.  Development of the pectoral lobed fin in the Australian lungfish Neoceratodus forsteri. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9:679633. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.679633.

102. Cupello, C., T. Hirasawa, N. Tatsumi, Y. Yabumoto, P. Gueriau, S. Isogai, R. Matsumoto, T. Saruwatari, A. King, M. Hoshino, K. Uesugi, M. Okabe, and P. M. Brito. 2022. Lung evolution in vertebrates and the water-to-land transition. bioRxiv, preprint. DOI:10.1101/2022.02.14.480340.


103. Miyata, S., Y. Yabumoto, Y. Nakajima, Y. Ito, Yasuhiro, and T. Sasaki. 2022. A Second Specimen of the Crossognathiform Fish Apsopelix miyazakii from the Cretaceous Yezo Group of Mikasa Area, Central Hokkaido, Japan. Paleontological Research, 26(2) : 213-223. figs. 1-5. 


104. Yabumoto, Y. and C. Zhang. 2023. A new Micene gobiiform fish, Odontobutis hayashitokuei from Iki, Nagasaki, Japan. Paleontological Research, vo. 27, no. 4, pp. 383–395, figs. 1–9, tabs. 1–2.


105. Tomita, T., Y. Yabumoto and N. Kuga. 2024. A New Snaggletooth Shark Species, Hemipristis tanakai sp. nov., from the Ashiya Group (Oligocene), Northern Kyushu, Japan. Paleontological Research 28 (3), 273-278, (15 December 2023) https://doi.org/10.2517/PR220021.