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>I have been following some of your papers and urge you to keep doing such great work. You seem to be the only one who has explained the timing of jelly coat formation in any amphibian egg! I wish there were similar data on at least a few other species. In that light, are there any papers, perhaps in Japanese or Chinese, on the method of formation of a rosary of eggs in Andrias that I do not know about? In this message and those that follow I would like to get copies of yours - a particular one is: The process of ovulation and succeeding formation of egg sacs ... Also, I am amazed that I find no keys to hynobiid larvae or eggs, as well as Asian salamandrids. Why is that? I would be glad to collaborate with you on such projects. Hope to hear from you - amphibian larvae and reproduction is an exciting field of research. (2014年8月20日)

Thank you very much for your queries about jelly coat formation in amphibian eggs. Although Hasumi (1996) actually seems to be the only paper that has explained the timing of jelly coat formation in any amphibian egg as you suggested, Katagiri (1965) has already made a similar description. As you know, Dr. Katagiri and his colleagues (Hokkaido University) investigated a role in the amphibian jelly coat, but unfortunately, there is little description about the timing of jelly coat formation in amphibian eggs. However, Katagiri (1965) clearly indicated location of eggs and jelly layer formation in the oviduct of the toad Bufo japonicus (p. 635).
・Katagiri, C. 1965. The fertilizability of coelomic and oviducal eggs of the toad, Bufo bufo formosus. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Series VI, Zoology 15: 633-643.

Although a purely descriptive study composed of considerable amounts of vague writing, Bulakhova and Berman (2013) described a rough appearance of oviductal changes in female Salamandrella schrenckii (p. 672).
・Bulakhova, N. A., and D. I. Berman. 2013. Reproductive system of the Schrenckii salamander (Salamandrella schrenckii, Amphibia, Caudata, Hynobiidae) in spring and fall. Biology Bulletin 40: 664-677.

Ouji et al. (1983) examined the development of egg capsules after oviposition in Andrias but did not refer to the egg's jelly coat formation.
・Ouji, M., K. Tsuneki, K. Kuwabara, and J. Kobara. 1983. Histological study on the hatching gland cells and the egg capsule in the Japanese giant salamander, Andrias japonicus (Temminck). Zoological Magazine 92: 107-112.

In Yamasaki et al. (2013), you can find Japanese description about a rosary of Andrias eggs in Fig. 7 (p. 33, right column, first figure). They explained that the remnant of rosaries was usually expelled from the female's cloacal opening of a spent female. However, I cannot find any description about the timing of jelly coat formation in Andrias eggs.
・Yamasaki, H., N. Shimizu, K. Tsuchioka, S. Ueda, T. Takamatsu, K. Sato, and K. Kuwabara. 2013. Practical study for conservation of giant salamander Andrias japonicus in Toyosaka, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan. Bulletin of the Hiroshima University Museum 5: 29-38. (in Japanese with English abstract)

I am very sorry to say that I am not sure what your statement of "keys to hynobiid larvae or eggs" means. Please let me know concrete examples of these keys.

[P. S.] I have just found a Chinese paper with a brief English abstract (Guo et al., 2005) that may contain descriptions about oviductal changes during the breeding season in the Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus). Although I do not understand Chinese descriptions, the Japanese Kanji-script is similar to the Chinese-script. So, I guess this paper deals with the oviductal changes. If you get any person who can read Chinese, you will know the contents of that paper.
・Guo, Y., T. Li, and D. Cang. 2005. Advances in research of reproduction physiology of Andrias davidianus. Life Science Research 9: 99-104. (in Chinese with English abstract)

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>THANK YOU for the citations and notes - every little bit of information in useful and I did not know of any of these papers. Feel free to send along anything that applies to eggs or larval amphibians. A key is a series of questions that intends to lead you to the proper identification of a specimen in question. My question was - why are there no keys to the eggs or larvae of Asian hynobiid or salamandrid eggs and larvae??!! It seems that there is quite a lot known but that information has never been collated into a key and an associated bibliography. I have never had the chance to examine hynobiid larvae so I do not know anything about them. I cannot think of any other things at the moment, but I a sure I will be back with other questions. (2014年8月20日)

Thank you for your kind reply. Surely, I sent you the local papers, to which you might have no access. I see I understood what a key means (i.e., species identification keys). To my knowledge, actually, there seem to be no complete keys to identify eggs or larvae of Asian hynobiids or salamandrids. However, I know a currently available Japanese paper that depicts rough (indeed poor) sketches of four types of egg sacs (p.89), two types of larvae (p.94), and lentic- and lotic-breeding types (p. 97) of hynobiid salamanders (Hayase and Yamane, 1989) although it has no keys (but for a key-like table, see p.90).
・Hayase, N., and S. Yamane. 1989. Habitats and reproductive modes in Japanese hynobiid salamanders. Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Ibaraki University (Natural Science) 38: 85-102. (in Japanese with English abstract)

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