Check List 7(4): 448-457, doi: 10.15560/7.4.448
Illustrated list of additions to the ichthyofauna of Yaku-shima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan: 50 new records from the island
Hiroyuki Motomura,
Masahiro Aizawa
Corresponding author:
Hiroyuki Motomura
(
motomura@kaum.kagoshima-u.ac.jp
)
© 2017 Hiroyuki Motomura, Masahiro Aizawa. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Motomura H, Aizawa M (2016) Illustrated list of additions to the ichthyofauna of Yaku-shima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan: 50 new records from the island. Check List 7(4): 448-457. https://doi.org/10.15560/7.4.448 | ![Open Access](/i/open_access_icon_colour.svg) |
Abstract
Previous surveys of marine and estuarine fishes of Yaku-shima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, have recorded a total of 958 species. Recent examinations of museum collections and newly-collected specimens during the present study resulted in an additional 29 species recorded from Yaku-shima Island for the first time, plus a further 21 species now represented by voucher specimens, having been previously recorded from Yaku-shima only by underwater observations and/or from photographs. Thus, the number of marine and estuarine fish species from Yaku-shima Island now totals 987, the second highest fish species diversity recorded from a single region in Japan. Of the 50 voucher-based species newly recorded in this study, 11 represented a northernmost range extension and one, a southernmost extension. Color photographs of most are provided.