Fish Department - Research Associates

Dr Hiroyuki Motomura

Hiroyuki Motomura at the Australian Museum, 2005. Photo: M. McGrouther © Australian Museum.

B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D

Dr Hiroyuki Motomura is currently the Associate Professor, Ichthyology, at the Kagoshima University Museum.

Hiro submitted his PhD thesis (on Threadfins - see below) at the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Miyazaki University, Japan in 2001.

After completing his PhD he moved to the National Science Museum, Tokyo, as a postdoctoral researcher and started research on the systematics of scorpionfishes and diversity of Cambodian freshwater fishes.

He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian Museum between 2003 and 2005.

Hiro has made numerous trips to museums worldwide to examine specimens in collections. He has done fieldwork in Japan, Taiwan, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Philippines, New Caledonia, Kuwait and Australia.

Over the years he has worked on the systematics of the families Polynemidae, Scorpaenidae , Banjosidae and Tripterygiidae. He is also interested in biogeography, especially the antitropical distribution of fishes.

Contact details

Dr Hiroyuki Motomura
Kagoshima University Museum
1-21-30 Korimoto
Kagoshima 890-0065
Japan

Research Publications

Publications list

PhD thesis

Motomura, H. 2001 (Sept.) Review of the marine threadfin (Pisces: Perciformes: Polynemidae) from the Indo-Pacific region. 245 pp. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Miyazaki University, Japan.