''Matsubaraea'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

percomorph Percomorpha () is a large clade of ray-finned fish that includes the tuna, seahorses, gobies, cichlids, flatfish, wrasse, perches, anglerfish, and pufferfish. Evolution Percomorpha are the most diverse group of teleost fish today. Teleosts, and ...

fish from the subfamily

Hemerocoetinae Hemerocoetinae is a subfamily of percomorph bony fishes, they are part of the duckbill family Percophidae. Genera The following genera are included within the Hemerocoetinae: * '' Acanthaphritis'' Günther, 1880 * '' Dactylopsaron'' Parin, 199 ...

. The only species in the genus, ''Matsubaraea fusiforme'' is found in the western Pacific in the waters around Japan, Thailand and the Philippines on sandy substrates. It feeds on

mysids Mysida is an order of small, shrimp-like crustaceans in the malacostracan superorder Peracarida. Their common name opossum shrimps stems from the presence of a brood pouch or "marsupium" in females. The fact that the larvae are reared in this ...

. The generic name honours the

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of October ...

Shinnosuke Matsubara was a Japanese businessman and investor. He was the founder of the Nomura Group zaibatsu who formed Nomura Securities in 1925.The House of Nomura, ''Al Alletzhauser'', Bloomsbury Publishing Limited () In 1928, he was appointed to the House of ...

who was director of Imperial Fisheries in Tokyo.

References

{{taxonbar, from=Q2403682 Percophidae Monotypic fish genera Fish described in 1943