Matsubara & Asano, 1959 :293
Kaupichthys hyoproroides
Kaupichthys diodontus
Chen & Yu, 1986 :255
Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan
Ho, Hsuan-Ching
Smith, David G.
Mccosker, John E.
Hibino, Yusuke
Loh, Kar-Hoe
Tighe, Kenneth A.
Shao, Kwang-Tsao
Zootaxa
2015
4060
1
140
189
3R42T
Matsubara & Asano, 1959
Matsubara & Asano
1959
[167,752,736,762]
Actinopterygii
Chlopsidae
Kaupichthys
Animalia
Anguilliformes
3
143
Chordata
species
japonicus
Kaupichthys diodontus japonicus Matsubara & Asano, 1959:293, figs. 1, 2A–B ( typelocality: Near Kametsu, Tokunoshima, Amami Islands, Japan). Kaupichthys hyoproroides(not of Strömman, 1896): Shao et al., 2008:237. Kaupichthys diodontus(not of Schultz, 1943): Chen & Yu, 1986:255. Voucher specimens: ASIZP 54931 (Heng-chun, Pingtung). Also represented by ten catalog records ( 41 specimenstotal) in the USNM collection collected by rotenone off southern Taiwan.
Remarks. Previous Taiwanese records of K. hyoproroidesand K. diodontusrepresent misidentifications of K. japonicusand are not valid. The only voucher present in Taiwanis reidentified as the present species. It is notable that there are four rows (two on each side) of blunt teeth on the vomer, whereas the original description described only two, one on each side. However, one of us (KAT) has observed a number of specimens of Kaupichthysthat have two rows of teeth on each side of the vomer.