“…The Surveys have and will continue to contribute to many scientific projects, and a list of scientific publications that describe the samples collected during the surveys can be found in the webpage. Many of the publications describe new species or report the discovery of species that had not been reported in Japan (Kakui and Kohtsuka, 2015;Kakui, 2015, 2019;Jimi and Fujiwara, 2016;Izumi et al, 2017;Jimi et al, 2017Jimi and Kajihara, 2018;Kajihara, 2019, 2021;Tanaka et al, 2019;Saito, 2020;Tsuyuki et al, 2021), while others are in the field of molecular phylogeny (Kushida and Reimer, 2019), embryology (Wakabayashi, 2017), behavior (Yoshikawa et al, 2018), evolution (Kakui and Hiruta, 2017), methods development (Maeno et al, 2019), and paleobiology (Mitsui et al, 2021). Information on animals obtained by the surveys are publicly available, from the webpage described above and through RINKAI (Regionally Integrated Marine Database; https://www.shimoda.tsukuba.ac.jp/~marinelife-db/), a database including organisms collected in these surveys.…”