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Species Diversity
Abstract
A single adult specimen of Pomadasys kaakan (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830 ), 483.0 mm in standard length, was collected at a depth of 36 m off the Satsuma Peninsula, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Because previous records of the species from Japan had been based on mis-identifications of P. argenteus ( Forsskål, 1775 ), the Kagoshima specimen represents the first reliable record of P. kaakan from Japan supported by a voucher specimen.
We are especially grateful to S. Raredon (USNM) for providing information on specimens examined by H. Fowler, and to R. Miki (University of Miyazaki, Japan) and Y. Masuda (Kagoshima University, Japan) for providing literature. We also thank Y. Haraguchi and other volunteers, and students of KAUM for their curatorial assistance, and G. Hardy (Ngunguru, New Zealand) for reading the manuscript and providing help with English. This study was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A: 26241027, B: 24370041 and C: 23580259 and 26450265) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan (JSPS); the JSPS Asian Core Program “Establishment of Research and Education Network on Coastal Marine Science in Southeast Asia”, the JSPS International Training Program “Protect Diversity of Bioresources in the Tropical Area”; the “Coastal Area Capability Enhancement in Southeast Asia Project” of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan; the “Biological Properties of Biodiversity Hotspots in Japan” project of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan; and “Establishment of Research and Education Network on Biodiversity and Its Conservation in the Satsunan Islands” project of Kagoshima University adopted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.
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