''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 "unisp ...

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

from the family

Hemerocoetidae Hemerocoetidae is a family of percomorph ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Acropomatiformes. Genera The following genera are included within the Hemerocoetinae: * '' Acanthaphritis'' Günther, 1880 * '' Dactylopsaron'' Parin, 1990 * '' ...

. 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. 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, 35,800 species of fish had been described as of March 2 ...

Shinnosuke Matsubara who was director of Imperial Fisheries in Tokyo.

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Hemerocoetidae Monotypic ray-finned fish genera Fish described in 1943 {{Acropomatiformes-stub