First Japanese Record of the Haemulid Fish Pomadasys kaakan (Perciformes), from Kagoshima Prefecture, Southern Japan

Abstract

A single adult specimen of Pomadasys kaakan (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830), 483.0mm in standard length, was collected at a depth of 36m off the Satsuma Peninsula, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Because previous records of the species from Japan had been based on mis-identifications of P. argenteus (Forsskal, 1775), the Kagoshima specimen represents the first reliable record of P. kaakan from Japan supported by a voucher specimen.