Ai Nonaka

• B.A. English Literature, Hosei University Tokyo

Sorting and identifying marine larval fishes with a focus on larvae from the Pacific, the Indo- Pacific and the Atlantic, clearing and staining larval specimens for osteology, databasing, performing all DNA protocols for DNA barcoding from the blackwater diving larval fish project, translation of Japanese scientific papers, educational outreach activities, especially for Japanese museum guests.

Journal Article

• Nonaka, Ai, Palmer, Lisa, and Dorr, Laurence J. 2025. "Kako Morita: A Japanese Artist and His Struggle to Survive as a Scientific Illustrator of Fishes and Other Natural History Specimens in Early 20th Century America." Marine Fisheries Review, 86, (1-4) 1–44. https://doi.org/10.7755/MFR.86.1-4.1.
• Girard, Matthew G., Mundy, Bruce C., Nonaka, Ai, and Johnson, G. D. 2023. "Cusk-eel confusion: revisions of larval Luciobrotula and Pycnocraspedum and re-descriptions of two bythitid larvae (Ophidiiformes)." Ichthyological Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-023-00906-4.
• Nonaka, Ai, Milisen, Jeffrey W., Mundy, Bruce C., and Johnson, G. D. 2021. "Blackwater Diving: An Exciting Window Into the Planktonic Arena and Its Potential to Enhance the Quality of Larval Fish Collections." Ichthyology & Herpetology, 109, (1) 138–156. https://doi.org/10.1643/i2019318.
• Anderson, William D., Johnson, G. David, and Nonaka, Ai. 2018. "Review of the groppos, Grammatonotus (Percoidei: Callanthiidae." Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 24, (2) 47–80.
• Baldwin, Carole C., Tornabene, Luke, Robertson, D. Ross, Nonaka, Ai, and Gilmore, R. Grant. 2018. "More new deep-reef basslets (Teleostei, Grammatidae, Lipogramma), with updates on the eco-evolutionary relationships within the genus." Zookeys, (729) 129–161. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.729.21842.
• Baldwin, Carole C., Robertson, D. Ross, Nonaka, Ai, and Tornabene, Luke M. 2016. "Two new deep-reef basslets (Teleostei, Grammatidae, Lipogramma), with comments on the eco-evolutionary relationships of the genus." ZooKeys, 638 45–82. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.638.10455.
• Miyamoto, Kei, Nonaka, Ai, and Oka, Shin-Ichiro. 2015. "Northernmost record of a poorly known tuskfish, Choerodon margaritiferus (Perciformes: Labridae), from southern Japan, and first description of a female." Zootaxa, 4007, (1) 82–90. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4007.1.5.

Report

• Girard, Matthew G., Nonaka, Ai, Baldwin, Carole C., and Johnson, G. David. 2024. Discovery and Description of Elaborate Larval Cusk-Eels and the Relationships among Acanthonus, Tauredophidium, and Xyelacyba (Teleostei: Ophidiidae). NOAA Fisheries. In NMFS Professional Paper, 24. https://doi.org/10.7755/PP.24.3.