Ten carangid specimens belonging to the genus Selar, collected by small set net at Kadogawa Bay, Miyazaki Prefecture (eastern coast of Kyushu Island), Japan, were identified as Selar boops (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1833), on the basis of scales in curved part of lateral line 22-24 and chord of the curved part of lateral line 2.2-2.7 times in straight part. These specimens represent first record of the species from Japan. Specimens are described and a new Japanese name "Teru-meaji" is proposed for the species.
