Basic Information

Email Address

• Email Address

  obata.kota.8mkyoto-u.ac.jp

Academic Degree

• 24 Mar. 2022

  北海道大学修士（水産科学）
• 26 Mar. 2025

  北海道大学博士（水産科学）

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• 北海道大学, 水産学部海洋生物科学科, 卒業

Research History

• From Apr. 2025, To Present

  Kyoto University, Field Science Education and Research Center, Program-Specific Researcher

ID,URL

• J-Global ID

  202501020122721764

• Researcher number

  81019868

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/kotaobata250501

Research

Research Areas

• Life sciences, Aquaculture
• Life sciences, Biodiversity and systematics
• Life sciences, Morphology, anatomy

Papers

• Checklist of fishes collected by bottom otter-trawling from upper Gulf of Thailand by MV-SEAFDEC 2 cruise in December 2019

  Veera Vilasri; Supapong Pattarapongpan; Barry Russell; Kota Obata; Toshio Kawai

  Thailand Natural History Museum Journal, Dec. 2023, Peer-reviewed

  
• Dextral osteology of Chascanopsetta lugubris (Teleostei: Pleuronectiformes: Bothidae) from the eastern Indian Ocean

  Kuroshima Kazuya; Kota Obata; Toshio Kawai

  Bulletin of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Dec. 2022

  
• Deep-sea fishes from the Andaman Sea by R/V Chakratong Tongyai during 1996-2000. Part 8: order Myctophiformes

  Kota Obata; Asuka Sugiyama; Toshio Kawai; Fumihito Tashiro; Hisashi Imamura; Charatsee Aungtonya; Surangkana Tuanapaya

  Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin, Dec. 2024, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• First Pacific Record of the Rare Scaleless Dragonfish Grammatostomias circularis (Teleostei: Stomiiformes: Stomiidae) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan

  Kota Obata; Hisashi Imamura

  Species Diversity, 29 Feb. 2024, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Record of a pufferfish, Arothron stellatus (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from Usujiri, Hakodate, southern Hokkaido, Japan

  Kota Obata; Toshio Kawai

  Bulletin of the Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Dec. 2023, Lead author

  
• Discovery of a second juvenile of the rare flatfish Plagiopsetta glossa (Pleuronectiformes: Samaridae) from the East China Sea

  Kota Obata; Toshio Kawai; Gento Shinohara

  Platax, Dec. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• First Japanese record of the scaleless dragonfish, Melanostomias nigroaxialis (Stomiidae: Melanostomiinae)

  Kota Obata; Makoto Furusho; Hisashi Imamura; Yoji Narimatsu

  Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, Nov. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• A Rare Flatfish, Samaris spinea (Teleostei: Pleuronectiformes: Samaridae) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, with Notes on Its Distribution, Taxonomy and Sexual Dimorphism

  Kota Obata; Toshio Kawai; Gento Shinohara

  Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science Series A (Zoology), Nov. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Deep-sea fishes from the Andaman Sea by R/V Chakratong Tongyai during 1996-2000. Part 7: order Stomiiformes

  Kota Obata; Kohei Mita; Tetsuro Senda; Toshio Kawai; Fumihito Tashiro; Hisashi Imamura; Charatsee Aungtonya; Surapong Banchongmanee

  Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin, Oct. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Coloration of a small Nozawa’s prickleback, Stichaeus nozawae Jordan and Snyder, 1902 (Zoarcoidei : Stichaeidae)

  Kota Obata; Toshio Kawai; Tetsuya Takatsu

  Bulletin of the Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Aug. 2021, Lead author

  

Presentations

• Muscular system in flatfishes (Teleostei: Pleuronectiformes): its diversity and phylogenetic implication

  Kota Obata; Hisashi Imamura

  The 12th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (Taipei, Taiwan), 12 Jun. 2025

  
• Re-evaluation of the generic diagnoses of the family Samaridae (Pleuronectiformes) with comments on the phylogeny of the family

  Kota Obata; Hisashi Imamura; Toshio Kawai

  The 11th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (Auckland, New Zealand), Nov. 2023

  
• Two undescribed species of the crested flounder genus Samaris (Pleuronectiformes: Samaridae) from eastern Australia and South Africa

  Kota Obata; Toshio Kawai; Hisashi Imamura

  The 3rd International Symposium on Natural Science: Natural Resource Sustainability and People's Responsibility for Society (Pathum Thani, Thailand), 02 Dec. 2022

  
• Synapomorphies and phylogenetic relationships of the family Samaridae (Pleuronectiformes)

  Kota Obata; Toshio Kawai; Hisashi Imamura; Fumihito Tashiro

  2022年度日本魚類学会年会（オンライン）, Sep. 2022

  
• Comparative anatomy of the dorsal fin in the family Samaridae and related taxa (Pleuronectiformes)

  小幡光汰; 河合俊郎; 今村央; 田城文人

  2021年度日本魚類学会年会（ウェブ大会）, Sep. 2021

  
• Stomiiform fishes collected by the R/V Chakratong Tongyai from the Andaman Sea off Phuket, Thailand

  小幡光汰; 三田昂平; 千田哲朗; 河合俊郎; 田城文人; 今村央; Aungtonya Charatsee; Banchongmanee Surapong

  2020年度日本魚類学会年会（ウェブ大会）, Oct. 2020

  

Awards

• 25 Mar. 2020

  函館市長賞