Photopectoralis bindus

Miki, Ryohei, Murase, Atsunobu & Wada, Masaaki, 2018, A checklist of ponyfishes (Teleostei, Leiognathidae) from Miyazaki Prefecture, east coast of Kyushu, southern Japan, with range extensions of three tropical species, Check List 14 (1), pp. 243-255 : 249-250

Photopectoralis bindus (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1835): Figure 3G, H

Equula bindus Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes 1835: 78. Leiognathus bindus — Woodland et al. 2001: 2802.

Photopectoralis bindus — Chakrabarty et al. 2010: 117; Kimura 2011:

114; Allen and Erdmann 2012: 442; Senou 2013: 902; Sparks and Chakrabarty 2015: 187; Fujiwara and Motomura 2016: 198; Kimura 2017: 125.

Diagnosis. This species is characterized by the following combination of characters: deep body, its depth 44–58% of SL; mouth protruding forwards; small slender teeth on both jaws; no black line from lower margin of orbit to chin ( Senou 2013).

Distribution. Photopectoralis bindus is widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific. In Japanese waters, this species is known from the coast of Iburi, Tosa-shimizu City of Kochi Prefecture, north and south coasts of Miyazaki Prefecture, Uchinoura Bay (Pacific coast), the coast of Minami-satsuma City in Kagoshima Prefecture (East China Sea), and Okinawa Island ( Fig. 1, Table 1: Gosho 2001, Senou 2013, Fujiwara and Motomura 2016, this study).

Remarks. Two specimens (52.7–74.0 mm SL) of P. bindus were caught from the southern part of Miyazaki Prefecture in October and December. In addition to these current survey records, an additional specimen (KPN-NI 42527, 38.4 mm SL) was collected from Kadogawa Bay, northern part of Miyazaki Prefecture in August 2016.