Masaharu Motokawa

Profile Information

Affiliation: The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University

Researcher number: 30293939
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5359-0070
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901076704535214
researchmap Member ID: 1000221236

External link: http://www.museum.kyoto-u.ac.jp/modules/about_staff/motokawa/index.html

Research Interests

Research Areas

Life sciences / Biodiversity and systematics /

Research History

Apr, 2016 - Present

Professor, The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University
Sep, 2009 - Mar, 2016

Associate Professor, The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University
2007 - Sep, 2009

Assistant Professor, The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University
Apr, 1997 - Mar, 2007

Assistant Professor, The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University

Education

- 1997

Kyoto University
- 1997

Graduate School, Division of Natural Science, Kyoto University
- 1993

Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
- 1993

Faculty of Science, Kyoto University

Awards

Papers

158

Nasal Bone Variability in two Japanese Horseshoe Bats Revealed by 3-Dimensional Geometric Morphometrics

Yugo Ikeda, Hyeji Kang, Yoo-Kyung Kim, Hong-Shik Oh, Masaharu Motokawa

Acta Chiropterologica, 25(2), Feb 12, 2024
Morphological Variation of the House Mouse Mus musculus and the Ryukyu Mouse M. caroli (Mammalia: Muridae) from Japan

Wai Min Thu, Takashi O. Yato, Shinya Okabe, Yuta Shintaku, Masaharu Motokawa

Mammal Study, 49(1), Oct 20, 2023
A new shrew mole species of the genus Uropsilus (Eulipotyphla: Talpidae) from northwestern Vietnam

HAI TUAN BUI, SHINYA OKABE, LINH TU HOANG LE, NGAN THI NGUYEN, MASAHARU MOTOKAWA

Zootaxa, 5339(1) 59-78, Aug 28, 2023
Morphology of Metapodiophalangeal Joints and Mobility of Finger and Toe in Bovids

Sei-ichiro Takeda, Tatsuo Oshida, Masaharu Motokawa, Shin-ichiro Kawada, Hideki Endo

Mammal Study, 48(3), May 8, 2023
Geographic variation and biogeography of the greater Japanese shrew mole Urotrichus talpoides (Eulipotyphla: Talpidae)

Shinya Okabe, Akio Shinohara, Masaharu Motokawa

Zoologischer Anzeiger, 303 38-46, Mar, 2023
First Record of Lineage IV of Rattus tanezumi (Rodentia: Muridae) from the southern Ryukyus, Japan

Masaharu Motokawa, Tomohisa Makino, Takashi O. Yato, Shinya Okabe, Tsunehiro Shiroma, Masanao Toyama, Hidetoshi Ota

Mammal Study, 47(3), May 2, 2022
Osteological and vascular morphology and electrolyte homeostasis of sea turtles

Masataka YOSHIDA, Masaharu MOTOKAWA, Hideki ENDO

Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, 2022
Biogeographical variation on craniomandibular morphology in pallas’s squirrel \(\textit{Callosciurus erythraeus}\) (Pallas, 1779) (Rodentia: Sciuridae) in Vietnam

Vu Thuy Duong, Nguyen Truong Son, Bui Tuan Hai, Ly Ngoc Tu, Dang Huy Phuong, Tran Anh Tuan, Masaharu Motokawa, Hideki Endo, Tatsuo Oshida

Academia Journal of Biology, 43(4), Dec 30, 2021
Phylogeography of the Japanese greater horseshoe bat Rhinolophus nippon (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in Northeast Asia: New insight into the monophyly of the Japanese populations

Yugo Ikeda, Masaharu Motokawa

Ecology and Evolution, 11(24) 18181-18195, Dec 3, 2021
Comparative morphological study of skeletal muscle weight among the red jungle fowl ( Gallus gallus ) and various fowl breeds ( Gallus domesticus )

Hideki Endo, Naoki Tsunekawa, Kohei Kudo, Tatsuo Oshida, Masaharu Motokawa, Mitsuru Sonoe, Sawai Wanghongsa, Chanin Tirawattanawanich, Viengsavanh Phimphachanhvongsod, Takeshi Sasaki …

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 338(8) 542-551, Nov 26, 2021
Geographic isolation created distinct pelage characters in Finlayson’s squirrel on isolated island offshore of the Indochina Peninsula in Central Vietnam

Tu Ngoc Ly, Son Truong Nguyen, Masaharu Motokawa, Duong Thuy Vu, Hai Tuan Bui, Phuong Huy Dang, Tatsuo Oshida

Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 67(4) 403-415, Nov 19, 2021
New Dental Anomalies in the Greater Japanese Shrew Mole Urotrichus talpoides (Eulipotyphla: Talpidae)

Shinya Okabe, Akio Shinohara, Masaharu Motokawa

Mammal Study, 46(4), Aug 26, 2021
A new subspecies of Finlayson’s squirrel from an isolated island offshore of the Indochina Peninsula in southern Vietnam

Duong Thuy Vu, Son Truong Nguyen, Masaharu Motokawa, Tu Ngoc Ly, Phuong Huy Dang, Hai Tuan Bui, Minh Duc Le, Hideki Endo, Tatsuo Oshida

Mammalia, Aug 16, 2021
Rodent-Borne Orthohantaviruses in Vietnam, Madagascar and Japan

Fuka Kikuchi, Kae Senoo, Satoru Arai, Kimiyuki Tsuchiya, Nguyen Truong Son, Masaharu Motokawa, Marie Ranorosoa, Saw Bawm, Kyaw Lin, Hitoshi Suzuki …

VIRUSES-BASEL, 13(7), Jul, 2021
Complex Historical Biogeography of the Eastern Japanese Skink, Plestiodon finitimus (Scincidae, Squamata), Revealed by Geographic Variation in Molecular and Morphological Characters

Taku Okamoto, Seita Tsukamoto, Masaki Kuro-o, Takeo Kuriyama, Masaharu Motokawa

Zoological Science, 38(2), Feb 25, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Phylogenetic relationships among Callosciurus squirrels in the Indochina Peninsula: phylogenetic position of C. pygerythrus from Myanmar

Tatsuo Oshida, Wynn Than, Thida Oo, Khin Yu Yu Swe, Hiroaki Saito, Masaharu Motokawa, Junpei Kimura, Son Truong Nguyen, Hai Tuan Bui, Phuong Huy Dang

Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 67(1) 87-98, Feb 22, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Shrews (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) from Mt. Tay Con Linh, Ha Giang Province, northeast Vietnam

Hiroaki Saito, Bui Tuan Hai, Ly Ngoc Tu, Nguyen Truong Son, Shin-ichiro Kawada, Masaharu Motokawa

Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series A (Zoology), 47(1) 43-53, Feb, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Bats (Chiroptera) of Bidoup Nui Ba National Park, Dalat Plateau, Vietnam

Son Truong Nguyen, Thomas J. O'Shea, Jeffery A. Gore, Khoi Vu Nguyen, Thanh Trung Hoang, Masaharu Motokawa, Phuong Huy Dang, Minh Duc Le, Tham Thi Nguyen, Tatsuo Oshida …

Mammal Study, 46(1), Jan 20, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Zoogeographical barriers causing discontinuous osteometrical variations in the northern treeshrew skulls

Hideki ENDO, Truong Son NGUYEN, Dinh Duy NGUYEN, Motoki SASAKI, Junpei KIMURA, Tatsuo OSHIDA, Masaya YAGO, Ngoc Tu LY, Thi Tham NGUYEN, Masaharu MOTOKAWA

Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, 83(10) 1534-1544, 2021
Karyotypic polymorphism of Crocidura tanakae (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) and revision of the karyotype of C. attenuata in mainland China

Haotian Li, Xinmin Mo, Huimei Sun, Jing Wang, Masaharu Motokawa, Masashi Harada, Yi Wu, Yuchun Li

Journal of Mammalogy, 101(6) 1548-1560, Dec 31, 2020 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

113

学会賞受賞者2017 アジアにおける哺乳類の種多様性の形成と進化を探る

本川雅治

哺乳類科学, 58(1) 141-152, 2018
Message from the Co-chair of Organizing Committee

Masaharu Motokawa

Kyoto University and University of Yangon International Symposium "Asian Multilateral Research Network for Vertebrate Species Diversity" and The 7th International Symposium on Asian Vertebrate Species Diversity, Program and Abstracts, 5, 2017
大学博物館シンポジウムコレクション，博物館科学，国際ネットワーク

本川雅治

京都大学総合博物館ニュースレター, 41 3, 2017
三高動物学とこれからの博物館科学

本川雅治

京都大学生活協同組合教職員情報, 140(218) 5, 2017
総合博物館20周年記念平成29年度企画展「標本からみる京都大学動物学のはじまり」

本川雅治

京都大学総合博物館ニュースレター, 40 2-3, 2017
客員准教授 Nguyen Thien Tao

本川雅治

京都大学総合博物館ニュースレター, 39 7, 2017
人為環境に生息する小哺乳類の系統と分類

本川雅治

25年の歩み: 公益財団法人中山人間科学振興財団，東京．, 233-234, 2016
Message from Chairmen of the Organizing Committee

Masaharu Motokawa

The 6th International Symposium on Asian Vertebrate Species Diversity, Programme and Abstracts, VII-VII, 2016
Message from Organizers

Nguyen Quang Huy, Lam Thi My Dung, Masaharu Motokawa

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Interactions of Human, Culture and Nature Explored with University Museum Collections (Nakayama, N., ed.), The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Kyoto., 6, 2016
Specimen-based reconstruction of the human related dispersal of rats, mice and shrews in Asia

Masaharu Motokawa

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Interactions of Human, Culture and Nature Explored with University Museum Collections (Nakayama, N., ed.), The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Kyoto., 61-64, 2016
ベトナム国立自然博物館からの訪問

本川雅治

京都大学総合博物館ニュースレター, 京都大学総合博物館ニュースレター, 2016
フィリピン大学からの訪問

本川雅治

京都大学総合博物館ニュースレター, 37 7, 2016
チュラロンコン大学自然史博物館での在外研究

本川雅治

京都大学総合博物館ニュースレター, 37 4, 2016
Small mammal survey in Nishikoma Station of Shinshu University, central Honshu, Japan

Bui Tuan Hai, Hiroaki Saito, Masaharu Motokawa

Proceedings of the 2nd National Scientific Conference of Vietnam Natural Museum System:, Publishing House for Science and Technology, Hanoi., 408-416, 2016
Review of “voucher” and “reference” functions in the natural history specimens

Masaharu Motokawa, Nguyen Thien Tao, Wichase Khonsue, Hoang Trung Thanh, Suchinada Malaivijitnond, Somsak Panha

Proceedings of the 2nd National Scientific Conference of Vietnam Natural Museum System:, Publishing House for Science and Technology, Hanoi., 103-108, 2016
Introduction of the Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University

Masaharu Motokawa, Terufumi Ohno

Proceedings of the International Symposium on From Petrie to Hamada Egyptian Antiquities of Kyoto University, The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Kyoto., 8-11, 2016
Message from Chairmen of the Organizing Committee

Masaharu Motokawa

The 5th International Symposium on Asian Vertebrate Species Diversity, Programme and Abstracts, VII, 2015
サイゴクジネズミ，アズマモグラ，ホンシュウトガリネズミ

本川雅治, 村上興正

京都府レッドデータブック2015．１野生動物編，京都府自然環境保全課．, 37, 41, 2015
ミズラモグラ

本川雅治

京都府レッドデータブック2015．１野生動物編，京都府自然環境保全課．, 33, 2015
カワネズミ

村上興正, 本川雅治

京都府レッドデータブック2015．１野生動物編，京都府自然環境保全課．, 33, 2015

Books and Other Publications

Mammals of Taiwan Vol. 2 Rodentia

Liang-Kong Lin, Tatsuo Oshida, Masaharu Motokawa (Role: Joint author)

Tunghai University and Ministry of Science and Technology, Taichung and Taipei, 165 Pp., Apr, 2020
Handbook of The Mammals of The World. Vol. 8. Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos

Wilson, D. E, Mittermeier, R. A (Role: Contributor, Family Talpidae (Moles, Desmans, Star-nosed moles and Shrew moles))

Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, 2018
Species Diversity of Animals in Japan

Masaharu Motokawa, Hiroshi Kajihara (Role: Joint editor)

Springer Japan, 2017
日本のネズミ多様性と進化

本川雅治 (Role: Editor)

東京大学出版会, 2016
Mammals of Taiwan Volume 1. Soricomorpha

Liang-Kong Lin, Masaharu Motokawa (Role: Joint author)

Center for Tropical Ecology and Biodiversity, Tunghai University, 2014
環境学 21世紀の教養（分担執筆）

京都大学で環境学を考える研究者たち, 編 (Role: Contributor)

朝倉書店, 2014
岩波生物学辞典第５版（分担執筆）

厳佐庸, 倉谷滋, 斎藤成也, 塚谷裕一 (Role: Contributor)

岩波書店, 2013
知られざる動物の世界第８巻小型肉食獣のなかま

本川雅治 (Role: Joint translator)

朝倉書店, 2013
進化学事典（分担執筆）

日本進化学 (Role: Contributor)

共立出版, 2012
知られざる動物の世界第１巻食虫動物・コウモリのなかま

前田喜四雄, 本川雅治 (Role: Joint translator)

朝倉書店, 2011
スンクスの生物学（分担執筆）

織田銑一, 東家一雄, 宮木孝昌 (Role: Contributor)

学会出版センター, 2011
The Wild Mammals of Japan（分担執筆）

Ohdachi, S. D, Ishibashi, Y, Iwasa, M. A, Saitoh, T (Role: Contributor)

Shoukadoh, 2009
鳥学大全（分担執筆）

秋篠宮文仁, 西野嘉章 (Role: Contributor)

東京大学出版会, 2008
日本の哺乳類学第１巻小型哺乳類

本川雅治 (Role: Editor)

東京大学出版会, 2008
日本の動物はいつどこからきたのか（分担執筆）

京都大学総合博 (Role: Contributor)

岩波書店, 2005
京都府レッドデータブック上巻野生生物編（分担執筆）

京都府企画環境部環境企 (Role: Contributor)

京都府企画環境部環境企画課, 2002
食虫類の自然史（分担執筆）

阿部永, 横畑泰志 (Role: Contributor)

比婆科学教育振興会, 1998

Presentations

Species diversity of small mammals from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and Southeast Asia

Masaharu Motokawa

2018 Frontiers of Zoology Forum, Feb 26, 2018 Invited
Challenge of Asian vertebrate species diversity research network from Kyoto University

Masaharu Motokawa

Kyoto University and University of Yangon International Symposium, Dec 5, 2017 Invited
京都の動物学のはじまりと学びのコミュニティ

本川雅治

京都アカデミアウィーク2017, Oct 4, 2017 Invited
アジアにおける哺乳類の種多様性を探る

本川雅治

日本哺乳類学会学会賞受賞講演, Sep 9, 2017 Invited
三高動物学とこれからの博物館科学

本川雅治

京都大学総合博物館20周年記念平成29年度企画展「標本からみる京都大学動物学のはじまり」講演会, Aug 5, 2017 Invited
Sustainable biodiversity, and sustainable biodiversity science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQXm5Ijr2mk

Masaharu Motokawa

TEDxKyotoUniversity, Oct 30, 2016 Invited
The creative role of research outreach in leading universities

Masaharu Motokawa

APRU Research Symposium on University Museums 2014, May 21, 2014 Invited

Professional Memberships

Works

Research Projects

インドシナ半島周縁海域に存在する小島嶼は"哺乳類固有種"の創出機関であるのか？

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(B), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

押田龍夫, 遠藤秀紀, 本川雅治, 川田伸一郎, 福井大
動物区系地理学における旧北区と東洋区の境界のコネクティビティ概念に基づく再検討

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(A), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2022

本川雅治, 西川完途, 遠藤秀紀, 押田龍夫
Unlock the biodiversity and functioning in food-webs using metabarcoding and metagenomics

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Oct, 2016 - Mar, 2019
Exploring the universal rule to produce an endemic mammalian species on continent based on phylogeographic and biogeographic characteristics of fauna including many endemic species

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2018

OSHIDA TATSUO, KIMURA Junpei, Son Truong Nguyen, Thida Oo, Wynn Than
The process of immigration by humans of commensal house shrews around the Indian Ocean

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2018

Ohdachi Satoshi, FUKAZAWA Hideo, HANABUCHI Keiya, MORIKAWA Tomoko, YAMAGUCHI Nobuyuki, NASHER Abdul Karim, KABIR Nurul, GHADIRINAN Taher
Macroscopic Examinations of Convergence Strategy of Sensory, Masticatory and Locomotor Systems in Insectivora.

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2015

ENDO Hideki, MOTOKAWA Masaharu, KAWADA Shinichiro, OSHIDA Tatsuo
Functional-morphological studies of the phenotypes polyphyletically observed in the insectivores

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2009 - 2011

ENDO Hideki, YOKOHATA Yasushi, MOTOKAWA Masaharu, KAWADA Shin-ichiro, SHINOHARA Akio, KOHNO Naoki, SASAKI Motoki
日中産小型哺乳類の類縁関係と種多様性進化

2008 - 2010
Phylogenetic relationships and species diversity evolution in small mammals between Japan and China

2008 - 2010
チベット高原横断鉄道による野生動物への影響に関する研究

科学研究費補助金, 2007 - 2010
Study on the influence of the Qinghai-Tibetan railway on wild animals

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2007 - 2010
アカネズミの多系統起源と野生個体群の遺伝子交雑に関する系統分類学的研究

科学研究費補助金, 2003 - 2004
野生小型哺乳類における高山地形による生息環境の分断とその種多様性保全に関する研究

2003 - 2004
Phylogenetic study on the multiple origin and genetic introgression in wild populations of the Japanese large field mouse

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2003 - 2004
Study on habitat fragmentation in small mammals by mountain geomorphologic barrier and conservation of small mammal species richness

2003 - 2004
東アジア産小型哺乳類の種分化と系統分類に関する研究

2001 - 2002
Systematics and speciation of the East Asian small mammals

2001 - 2002
琉球列島におけるジネズミ類の種分化と系統進化に関する研究

科学研究費補助金, 1999 - 2000
Speciation and Phylogenetic evolution of the white-toothed shrews in the Ryukyu Archipelago

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 1999 - 2000
人為環境に生息する小哺乳類の系統と分類

1999 - 1999

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