Authors
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Yusuke HIBINO
Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 805-0071, Japan
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Yukiya OGATA
Nobeoka Marine Science Station, Field Science Center, University of Miyazaki, 376-6 Akamizu, Nobeoka, Miyazaki, 889-0517, Japan & Graduate School of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, 1-1 Gakuen-kibanadai-nishi, Miyazaki 889-2192, Japan
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Shunsuke ENDO
Laboratory of Fisheries Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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Masaaki WADA
Fisheries cooperative association of Iorigawa, 6-188 Iorigawa-nishi, Kadogawa-cho, Miyazaki 889-0605, Japan
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Atsunobu MURASE
Nobeoka Marine Science Station, Field Science Center, University of Miyazaki, 376-6 Akamizu, Nobeoka, Miyazaki, 889-0517, Japan & Department of Marine Biology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, 1-1 Gakuen-kibanadai-nishi, Miyazaki 889-2192, Japan
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Noritaka MOCHIOKA
Laboratory of Fisheries Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Keywords:
Ophichthidae, 16S rRNA, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kochi Prefecture, Underwater photograph
Abstract
Leiuranus versicolor (Richardson, 1848) is recorded based on a specimen from Miyazaki Prefecture, southern Japan. It represents the first Japanese and northernmost record. Leiuranus versicolor is similar to L. semicinctus, its single congener. The former can be easily separated from the latter by its unique banded pattern, usually with a narrow whitish yellow slit (vs. slit absent). The species was also photographed from Kashiwajima, southern part of Kochi Prefecture, southern Japan.