2016 年 2016 巻 37 号 p. 33-36
A single specimen of Hymenocephalus longibarbis (Günther, 1887) (Gadiformes: Macrouridae) was collected off Maisaka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, at 500 m depth. It represents the first record of the species from the Enshu-nada Sea, suggesting the speciesʼ continuous distribution in southern Japan along the path of the Kuroshio Current. A previous record of the species from the Kyushu-Palau Ridge (as H. longiceps) was a misidentification of H. hachijoensis Okamura, 1970. In Japan, the distribution of H. longibarbis appears to be restricted to the upper continental slope along the southern Japanese Archipelago.