• Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.366-371
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• 2023

A shrimp goby, Amblyeleotris japonica is reported firstly from Korea, based on a single specimen (70.3 mm in SL) collected at a depth of 14 m in the southern Jejudo Island. The species is characterized by having a lower number of scales in longitudinal series, a rather compressed body, anterior limit of opercular opening located below between posterior margin of eye and preopercle, second dorsal fin with a single spine and 13 soft rays, anal fin with a single spine and 14 soft rays, and five brownish vertical bands on lateral body between head and caudal peduncle when fresh. New Korean names, "Se-u-but-i-mang-dug-sog" and "Bulg-eun-dong-gal-se-u-but-i-mang-dug", are proposed for the genus and the species, respectively.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.121-127
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• 1972

The present paper deals with the results of the comparative morphology on the urohyal bones on the right-eye flounders, pleuronectidae fishes in Korean waters. The results obtained are as follows : 1. The position of the tip of sciatic part is quite different depending on the genera and species of the fishes. The sciatic part of the genera, Platichthys and Cleisthenes, is very short extending to the middle portion of the main part. In the fishes of Eopsetta and Tanakius, it is also very short extending to the anterior 1/3 of the distance from the tip of main part. The fishes of Verasper and Dexistes have a short sciatic part which extends toward the posterior 1/4 of the distance from the tip of main part. The fishes Of Limanda, Clidoderma, Glyptecephalus and Microstomus have a long sciatic part which extends as long as the main part. However, those of Kareius and Pleuronichthys have a very long sciatic part extending twice long as the main part. The tip of sciatic part of the fishes belonging to Eopsetta, Verasper, Limanda, Platichthys, Tanakius and Glyptocephalus is a truncate form. It is pointed upward in the fishes of Kareius, Pleuronichthys, Clidoderma and Microstomus, but pointed forward in Cleisthenes and Dexistes. 2. The size and form of the cardiac apophysis vary with the developmental grades of the urohyal bone. The fishes of Eopsetta, Verasper, Platichthys, Tanakius, Kareius and Dexistes possess relatively large apophyses and those of Pleuronichthys and Clidoderma have small apophyses. Intermediate size of the apophysis is found in the fishes of Limanda, Microstomus and Cleisthenes. A long and barlike apophysis is found in Glyptocephalus. Three kinds of the cardiac. apophysis are found in the fishes examined, i. e., lateral wing in Eopsette, Verasper, Limanda, Platichthys, Tanakius, Glyptocephalus, Kareius, Pleuronichthys and Clidoderma, pointed forward in Microstomus and Cleisthenes, and truncate with a well-developed inner ridge type in Dexistes. 3. The angle of the main part and sciatic part varies from 30 to 60 degrees in the fishes studied except for the fishes of Pleuronichthys, Clidoderma and Microstomus which show a semi-elliptical form.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.217-224
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• 1989

Four females and a male nematode isolated from 2 patients who visited eye clinics In Seoul were identified as Thelazia callipaeda and their ultrastructures were observed by scanning electron microscopy(SEM). General features of the worms were slender and attenuated at both ends. Vaginal opening was located at 0.27 mm from the anterior end, and in front of the esophagointestinal junction. In the body cuticle transverse striations varied characteristically through the body. The number of cuticular transverse striations was 400∼650/mm at head portion, 250/mm at middle portion and 300∼350/mm at tail portion. The SEM observation of the mouth part of the females showed 6 cord-like cuticular thickenings in hexagonal arrangement and an amphid was observed. A lateral line, a vaginal opening, a pair of phasmids, and an anus were identified in the body portion. A pair of papillae and 6 cord-like cuticular thickenings were on the mouth part of the male. It was difficult to observe structures at the tail of the male except wrinkle-like structures. Most of the larvae isolated from the uterus of a female worm were sheathed and thus cuticular striations were not Eren. Others were unsheathed and revealed cuticular striations. The oval membrane which encysted sheathed larvae was also observed. These are the 18th and 19th record of human thelaziasis in Korea as the literature are concerned.