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1. Motokawa M., Hattori S., Ota H. and Hikida T. 1996. Geographic variation in the Watase's shrew Crocidura watasei (Insectivora, Soricidae) from the Ryukyu archipelago, Japan. Mammalia 60 (2): 243-254.
2. Motokawa M. and Abe H. 1996. On the specific names of the Japanese moles of the genus Mogera (Insectivora, Talpidae). Mammal Study 21 (2): 115-123.
3. Motokawa M., Yu H.-T., Fang Y.-P., Cheng H.-C., Lin L.-K. and Harada M. 1997. Re-evaluation of the status of Chodsigoa sodalis Thomas, 1913 (Mammalia: Insectivora: Soricidae). Zoological Studies 36 (1): 42-47.
4. Motokawa M., Harada M., Lin L.-K., Koyasu K. and Hattori S. 1997. Karyological study of the gray shrew Crocidura attenuata (Mammalia: Insectivora) from Taiwan. Zoological Studies 36 (1): 70-73.
5. Motokawa M. and Harada M. 1998. Karyotype of the Hill's shrew Crocidura hilliana Jenkins & Smith, 1995 (Mammalia: Insectivora: Soricidae) from central Thailand. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 46 (1): 151-156.
6. Motokawa M. 1998. Reevaluation of the Orii's shrew, Crocidura dsinezumi orii Kuroda, 1924 (Insectivora, Soricidae) in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Mammalia 62 (2): 259-267.
7. Asakawa M., Tomikura T., Motokawa M. and Harada M. 1998. The first report of parasitic nematodes of Apodemus spp. (Muridae: Rodentia) collected on Ohsumi Islands, Kagoshima Pref., Japan. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 53 (2): 29-33.
8. Motokawa M., Harada M., Lin L.-K., Cheng H.-C. and Koyasu K. 1998. Karyological differentiation between two Soriculus (Insectivora: Soricidae) from Taiwan. Mammalia 62 (4): 541-547.
9. Motokawa M. 1999. Taxonomic history of the genus Crocidura (Insectivora: Soricidae) from Japan. Pp. 63-71. Recent Advances in the Biology of Japanese Insectivora: Proceedings of the Symposium on the Biology of Insectivore in Japan and on the Wildlife Conservation (Yokohata Y. and Nakamura S., eds.). Hiba Society of Natural History, Shobara.
10. Motokawa M., Suzuki H., Harada M., Lin L.-K., Koyasu K. and Oda S. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships among East Asian species of Crocidura (Mammalia, Insectivora) inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequences. Zoological Science 17 (4): 497-504.
11. Motokawa M. 2000. Biogeography of living mammals in the Ryukyu Islands. Tropics 10 (1): 63-71.
12. Motokawa M., Lin L.-K., Cheng H.-C. and Harada M. 2001. Taxonomic status of the Senkaku mole, Nesoscaptor uchidai, with special reference to variation in Mogera insularis from Taiwan (Mammalia: Insectivora). Zoological Science 18 (5): 733-740.
13. Motokawa M., Harada M., Wu Y., Lin L.-K. and Suzuki H. 2001. Chromosomal polymorphism in the gray shrew Crocidura attenuata (Mammalia: Insectivora). Zoological Science 18 (8): 1153-1160.
14. Motokawa M., Lu K.-H., Harada M. and Lin L.-K. 2001. New records of the Polynesian rat Rattus exulans (Mammalia: Rodentia) from Taiwan and the Ryukyus. Zoological Studies 40 (4) 299-304.
15. Lin L.-K., Motokawa M. and Harada M. 2002. Karyotype of Mogera insularis (Insectivora, Talpidae). Mammalian Biology 67 (3): 176-178.
16. Lin L.-K., Motokawa M., Harada M. and Cheng H.-C. 2002. New record of Barbastella leucomeras (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from Taiwan. Mammalian Biology 67 (5): 315-319.
17. Lin L.-K., Motokawa M. and Harada M. 2002. Karyology of ten Vespertilionid bats (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Taiwan. Zoological Studies 41 (4): 347-354.
18. Endo H., Hayashi Y., Yamazaki K., Motokawa M., Pei J.-C. K., Lin L.-K., Chou C.-H. and Oshida T. 2002. Geographical variation of mandible size and shape in the wild pig (Sus scrofa) from Taiwan and Japan. Zoological Studies 41 (4): 452-460.
19. Motokawa M. and Lin L.-K. 2002. Geographic variation in the mole-shrew Anourosorex squamipes. Mammal Study 27 (2): 113-120.
20. Motokawa M. and Maeda K. 2002. Preserved paratypes of Kuroda's (1924) Ryukyu mammals. Mammal Study 27 (2): 145-147.
21. Lin L.-K., Motokawa M. and Harada M. 2002. Karyological study of the house bat Pipistrellus abramus (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Taiwan with comments on its taxonomic status. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 50 (2): 507-510.
22. Motokawa M., Lin L.-K. and Motokawa J. 2003. Morphological comparison of Ryukyu mouse Mus caroli (Rodentia: Muridae) populations from Okinawajima and Taiwan. Zoological Studies 42 (2): 258-267.
23. Motokawa M. 2003. Soriculus minor Dobson, 1890, senior synonym of S. radulus Thomas, 1922 (Insectivora, Soricidae). Mammalian Biology 68 (3): 178-180.
24. Motokawa M., Lin L.-K., Harada M. and Hattori S. 2003. Morphometric geographic variation in the Asian lesser white-toothed shrew Crocidura shantungensis (Mammalia, Insectivora) in East Asia. Zoological Science 20 (6): 789-795.
25. Motokawa M. 2003. Geographic variation in the Japanese white-toothed shrew Crocidura dsinezumi. Acta Theriologica 48 (2): 145-156.
26. Endo H., Hikida T., Motokawa M., Chou L. M., Fukuta K and Stafford B. J. 2003. Morphological adaptation of the skull for various behaviors in the tree shrews. The Journal of Veterinary Medical Science 65 (8): 873-879.
27. Motokawa M., Harada M., Lin L.-K. and Wu Y. 2004. Geographic differences in karyotypes of the mole-shrew Anourosorex squamipes (Insectivora, Soricidae). Mammalian Biology 69 (3): 197-201.
28. Motokawa M. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships within the family Talpidae (Mammalia: Insectivora). Journal of Zoology, London 263 (2): 147-157.
29. Motokawa M., Harada M. and Lin L.-K. 2004. Variation in the Y chromosome of Crocidura tadae kurodai (Insectivora, Soricidae). Mammalian Biology 69 (4): 273-276.
30. Suzuki H., Yasuda S. P., Sakaizumi M., Wakana S., Motokawa M. and Tsuchiya K. 2004. Differential geographic patterns of mitochondrial DNA variation in two sympatric species of Japanese wood mice, Apodemus speciosus and A. argenteus. Genes & Genetic Systems 79 (3): 165-176.
31. Motokawa M., Lin L.-K. and Lu K.-H. 2004. Geographic variation in cranial features of the Polynesian rat Rattus exulans (Peale, 1848) (Mammalia: Rodentia: Muridae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2): 653-663.

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