Yellow-lined Cardinalfish Ostorhinchus chrysotaenia (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from Yaku Island, Osumi Islands; First Specimen-based Japanese Records, with an Assessment of the Holotype of the Species

Abstract

Two specimens (68.8–72.3 mm standard length) of Ostorhinchus chrysotaenia (Bleeker, 1851), previously recorded from Indonesia, northwestern Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, northern Borneo, Philippines, and Taiwan, and recently collected off Yaku Island, Osumi Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, represent the first records of the species from Japan supported by voucher specimens, and the northernmost distributional record of the species. The holotype and an additional non-type specimen of O. chrysotaenia were determined from two Bleeker specimens registered under the same catalog number.