Ota, Y. & Kurashima, A. & Horie, T. (2022)
First Record of Elasmobranch Hosts for the Gnathiid Isopod Crustacean Thaumastognathia: Description of Thaumastognathia bicorniger sp. nov. Zoological Science, 39(1), 124–139
DOI: 10.2108/zs210057
Ota, Y. (2015)
Pigmentation patterns are useful for species identification of third-stage larvae of gnathiids (Crustacea: Isopoda) parasitising coastal elasmobranchs in southern Japan. Systematic Parasitology, 90(3), 269–284
DOI: 10.1007/s11230-015-9548-1
Ota, Y. (2014)
Three new gnathiid species with larvae ectoparasitic on coastal sharks from southwestern Japan (Crustacea: Isopoda). Zootaxa, 3857(4), 478–500
Yamauchi, T. & Ota, Y. (2012)
Heavy Infection of the Round Ribbontail Ray Taeniura meyeni with Stibarobdella macrothela (Annelida: Hirudinida: Piscicolidae). Comparative Parasitology, 79(2), 350–351
DOI: 10.1654/4559.1
Ota, Y. & Hoshino, O. & Hirose, M. & Tanaka, K. & Hirose, E. (2012)
Third-stage larva shifts host fish from teleost to elasmobranch in the temporary parasitic isopod, Gnathia trimaculata (Crustacea; Gnathiidae). Marine Biology, 159(10), 2333–2347
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-012-2018-2
Ota, Y. (2011)
A New Species of the Gnathiid Isopod, Gnathia teruyukiae (Crustacea: Malacostraca), from Japan, Parasitizing Elasmobranch Fish. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science Series A–Zoology, Suppl. 5: 41–51
Ota, Y. & Hirose, E. (2009)
Gnathia nubila n. sp and a new record of Gnathia grandilaris (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae) that parasitizes elasmobranchs from Okinawan coastal waters, Japan. Zootaxa, 2238, 43–55
Ota, Y. & Hirose, E. (2009)
Description of Gnathia maculosa and a new record of Gnathia trimaculata (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae), ectoparasites of elasmobranchs from Okinawan coastal waters. Zootaxa, 2114, 50–60
Yamauchi, T. & Ota, Y. & Nagasawa, K. (2008)
Stibarobdella macrothela (Annelida: Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) from elasmobranchs in Japanese waters, with new host records. Biogeography, 10, 53–57