Species Diversity 23: 233–237 25 November 2018 DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.23.233 First Japanese Records of the Jawfish Opistognathus solorensis (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Opistognathidae) from the Osumi Islands Satokuni Tashiro1,4, Daisuke Uyeno2, and Hiroyuki Motomura3 1 The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University, 1-21-24 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan E-mail:
[email protected] 2 Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, 1-21-35 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan 3 The Kagoshima University Museum, 1-21-30 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan 4 Corresponding author (Received 5 January 2018; Accepted 21 May 2018) Six specimens (48.1–75.1 mm standard length) of Opistognathus solorensis Bleeker, 1853, previously recorded from Palau, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan, were collected from the Osumi Is- lands, southern Japan. The specimens, which are described and compared with previous reports, represent the first records of the species from Japanese waters, a Tanega-shima island specimen being the northernmost known record of the species. The new standard Japanese name “Hoshikage-ago-amadai” is proposed for the species. Key Words: Description, distribution, rocky reef, underwater photographs. Opistognathus solorensis Bleeker, 1853 Introduction [New standard Japanese name: Hoshikage-ago-amadai] (Figs 1–3; Table 1) The genus Opistognathus Cuvier, 1816, the largest known group within Opistognathidae, currently includes 68 Indo- Opistognathus solorensis Bleeker, 1853: 81 (Solor Island, Pacific, eastern Pacific and western Atlantic species, in ad- Indonesia); Bleeker 1874: 471, fig. 3 (Solor, Amboina, dition to many as yet undescribed forms (Smith-Vaniz and and Goram Islands, Indonesia); Allen et al.