''Amamiichthys matsubarai'' also known as the hoshierenko is a
species of fish in the
family Sparidae
The Sparidae are a family of fish in the order Perciformes, commonly called sea breams and porgies. The sheepshead, scup, and red seabream are species in this family. Most sparids are deep-bodied compressed fish with a small mouth separated by a ...
found only in
Amami Island,
Ryukyu Islands in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. This species is the only known member of the
genus ''Amamiichthys''.
[Tanaka, F. & Iwatsuki, Y. (2015): ''Amamiichthys'', a new genus for the sparid fish ''Cheimerius matsubarai'' Akazaki 1962, and redescription of the species, with designation of a neotype. ''Zootaxa 4007 (2): 195–206.'']
References
Sparidae
Monotypic marine fish genera
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