奄美大島より得られた日本初記録のテンジクダイ科カクシヤツトゲテンジクダイ (新称)

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Seven specimens of a cardinalfish Neamia articycla, collected from dead-coral rubble bottoms of shallow to relatively deep coral reefs (at 4-60 m depths) at the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, represent first record from Japanese waters and northernmost record for the species. A brief account of the morphology of the Japanese specimens is given, in addition to a photograph showing the coloration of a freshly-collected specimen. The species is also newly recorded from Lombok Island, Indonesia and Mabul Island (northeast of Borneo), Malaysia. The specimens are compared with the original description, and some discrepancies in scale condition and coloration noted. The new Japanese name “Kakushi-yatsutoge-tenjikudai” is proposed for the species.