Biological arrangement of fundamental data on a group of soil animals, protura, in the Japanese Islands

土壤动物常被认为是从生态学角度进行环境评价的良好指标。然而，令人遗憾的是，除了少数情况外，日本土壤动物类群的区系和分类数据很差。就原生动物而言，通过我和同事40年来的实地考察，我和我的同事在日本群岛的3050多个地点积累了充足的材料和丰富的数据。在目前的研究中，我的努力集中在进一步的分类学修改和三个新种的描述(第(1)和(2)条)，以及对每个采集点的物种组成、植被、海拔高度、暖度指数等基础数据的生物学整理，以及物种和属、县和岛屿的指标。通过本系列研究收集的标本保存在东京国立科学博物馆(自然史)的馆藏，参考标本保存在日本雅滨国立大学环境科学研究所的藏品中。在上海昆虫研究所、中央研究院、日内瓦自然博物馆、加州大学(伯克利)埃西格博物馆等。这些标本不仅可用于未来的生态学研究，还可用于跨学科和/或国际研究。

Soil animals are often regarded as good indicators for environmental estimation from ecological view-points. It is, however, with regret that faunistic and taxonomic data are very poor in Japanese soil animal groups with the exception of a few cases.So far as proturans are concerned, ample materials and rich data have been accumulated from more than 3050 sites in the Japanese Islands through our field researches by me and my colleagues for these forty years. In the present, study, my efforts have been concentrated in further taxonomic revision with the description of three new species (Articles (1) & (2) ), and in biological arrangement of all the fundamental data such as species-composition, vegetation, altitude above sea level, the warmth inex, etc., from every collecting sites, with the indicies for species and genera, for prefectures and for islands.The specimens collected through the series of the present study are deposited in the collection of the National Science Museum (Natural History), Tokyo, and reference specimens are in the collections in the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Yakohama National University, that in the Shanghai Institute of Entmology, Academia Sinica, Museum Histoire Naturalle de Geneve, Essig Museum of California University (Berkeley), etc.. These specimens are to be avairable not only for future ecological studies, but also for interdesciplinary and/or international researches.