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【Publications】

1) Owada, M. (2025) Common reed bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus with a deformed beak observed in the Shin-Yokohama Park, Yokohama City. Natural History Report of Kanagawa 46: 17-21 [in Japanese]. [pdf]

2) Majima, R., Seto, H., Nozaki, A., Miyasaka, S., Nakatani, K., Owada, M., Saito, M., Kawagata, S. (2024) Outcrops of transgressive deposits of the last interglacial (MIS5.5) Kissawa Formation at Tsuchiya in Hiratsuka City, Pacific coast side of central Japan –with special interests in “peat bed”–. News Letter of The Kanagawa Earth Science Association 86: 3-29 [in Japanese].

3) Owada, M. (2023) Radula and shell microstructure variations are congruent with a molecular estimate of shallow-water Japanese chitons. Zoological Science 40: 390–403. [pdf]

4) Bassi, D., Braga, J.C., Owada, M., Aguirre, J., Lipps, J.H., Takayanagi, H., Iryu, Y. (2020) Boring bivalve traces in modern reef and deeper-water macroid and rhodolith beds. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 7: 41. [link]

5) Owada, M., Saito, M., Kase, T., Kanazawa, K. (2020) Molluscan Fauna in Sagami Bay off Hiratsuka: Results of the Investigation by Dredging in 2018 and 2019. Science Journal of Kanagawa University 31: 89–92 [in Japanese with English abstract]. [pdf]

6) Owada, M. (2018) Phylogenetic relationships among Japanese species of the genus Ischnochiton (Polyplacophora: Ischnochitonidae), including a new species. Zoological Science 35: 281–291. [pdf]

7) Owada, M., Saito, M., Ogata, D., Kiyono, Y., Kase, T., Kanazawa, K. (2018) Molluscan Fauna in Sagami Bay off Hiratsuka: Results of the Investigation by Dredging in 2016 and 2017. Science Journal of Kanagawa University 29: 73–76 [in Japanese with English abstract]. [pdf]

8) Bassi, D., Posenato, R., Nebelsick, J., Owada, M., Domenicali, E., Iryu, Y. (2017) Bivalve borings in Lower Jurassic Lithiotis fauna from northeastern Italy and its palaeoecological interpretation. Historical Biology 29: 937–946. [link]

9) Owada, M., Saito, M., Kobayashi, T., Yoshida, S., Kanazawa, K. (2016) Molluscan fauna in Sagami Bay off Hiratsuka: results of the investigation by dredging in 2014 and 2015. Science Journal of Kanagawa University 27: 59–62 [in Japanese with English abstract]. [pdf]

10) Owada, M. (2016) A new cryptic species distinguished from Ischnochiton comptus (Gould, 1859) (Polyplacophora: Ischnochitonidae) in central Honshu, Japan. Molluscan Research 36: 255–263. [link]

11) Owada, M. (2015) Functional phenotypic plasticity of the endolithic mytilid Leiosolenus curtus (Lischke, 1874) (Bivalvia: Mytilidae). Molluscan Research 35: 188–195. [link]

12) Owada, M., Kobayashi, Y., Okubo, I., Kanazawa, K. (2014) Molluscan fauna in Sagami Bay off Hiratsuka: results of the investigation by dredging in 2012 and 2013. Science Journal of Kanagawa University 25: 87–90 [in Japanese with English abstract]. [pdf]

13) Owada, M., Kasai, Y., Sato, S., Hong, JS. (2013) Shell morphology and genetic characteristics of Corbula (Potamocorbula) spp. (Bivalvia: Corbulidae) from the waters adjacent to Japan, Korea and San Francisco Bay. Aquatic Biology 19: 297–305. [pdf]

14) Owada, M., Kobayashi, Y., Okubo, I., Kanazawa, K. (2012) Molluscan fauna in Sagami Bay off Hiratsuka: results of the investigation by dredging in September and October 2011. Science Journal of Kanagawa University 23: 71–74 [in Japanese with English abstract]. [pdf]

15) Sato, S., Owada, M., Haga, T., Hong, JS., Lützen, J., Yamashita, H. (2011) Genus-specific commensalism of the galeommatoid bivalve Koreamya arcuata (A. Adams, 1856) associated with lingulid brachiopods. Molluscan Research 31: 95–105. [pdf]

16) Owada, M., Hoeksema, BW. (2011) Molecular phylogeny and shell microstructure of Fungiacava eilatensis Goreau et al. 1968, boring into mushroom corals (Sceractinia: Fungiidae), in relation to other mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae). Contributions to Zoology 80: 169–178. [pdf]

17) Owada, M., Kanazawa, K. (2011) Molluscan fauna in Sagami Bay off Hiratsuka. Science Journal of Kanagawa University 22: 63–66 [in Japanese with English abstract]. [pdf]

18) Owada, M. (2009) Organic sheets in the shells of endolithic mytilids (Bivalvia: Mytilidae). Paleontological Research 13: 159–166. [link]

19) Sogame, T., Owada, M., Kanazawa, K. (2009) Comparison of defensive behaviors in limpets inhabiting an intertidal zone. Science Journal of Kanagawa University 20: 89–92 [in Japanese with English abstract]. [pdf]

20) Watanabe, M., Owada, M., Kanazawa, K. (2009)Dietary habits of doridacean sea slugs of the Sagami Bay. Science Journal of Kanagawa University 20: 85–88 [in Japanese with English abstract]. [pdf]

21) Owada, M. (2008) The first record of Leiosolenus simplex (Iredale, 1939) boring into Plesiastrea versipora from Minamata bay in Japan (Bivalvia: Mytilidae). Venus 67: 81–84. [pdf]

22) Owada, M. (2008) Shell form of Leiosolenus curtus boring into dead shells of Tetraclita japonica in Manazuru, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Science Journal of Kanagawa University 19: 71–74 [in Japanese with English abstract]. [pdf]

23) Owada, M. (2007) Functional morphology and phylogeny of the rock-boring bivalves Leiosolenus and Lithophaga (Bivalvia: Mytilidae): a third functional clade. Marine Biology 150: 853–860. [link]

24) Owada, M., Yoshida, N., Kanazawa, K. (2007) Mollusks and bottom environment in the shallow water of Sagami Bay off Hiratsuka. Science Journal of Kanagawa University 18: 77–80 [in Japanese with English abstract]. [pdf]