The 9th International Symposium on Ostracoda was convened in Shizuoka, Japan, in 1985 by Noriyuki Ikeya and his team. The proceedings were published as „Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, Its Fundamentals and Applications“ by Kodansha (Tokyo) and Elsevier (Amsterdam-Oxford-New York-Tokyo), 1356 pp. (Tetsuro Hanai, Noriyuki Ikeya and Kunihiro Ishizaki, eds.) in 1988.