Tosana niwae Smith & Pope, 1906

Anderson, William D., 2022, Additions and emendations to the annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae), Zootaxa 5195 (6), pp. 567-578 : 574

Tosana niwae Smith & Pope, 1906

Anthias albofasciatus Fowler & Bean, 1930

Holotype: USNM 55618, 83.3 mm SL, 110 mm TL.

Type locality: Urado Bay, Kochi Prefecture, Japan.

Illustrations: Katayama, 1960: pl. 19; Kuiter, 2004:85, bottom fig.; Gill, Anderson, & Williams, 2019: figs. 1–4.

Counts: D: X, 13 to15 (usually X, 14). A: III, 6 or 7 (usually III, 7). P: 15 or 16 (usually 16). C: 15 (8 + 7). V: 26 (10 + 16). S: 2. GR: 34 to 37 (10 to 12 + 23 to 26). LL: 33 to 38. CP: 21 or 22.

Distribution: western Pacific; possibly also from the Persian Gulf off Bahrain (Randall, 1995:125, noted that Al-Baharna, 1986, reported this species in her Fishes of Bahrain without any information on locality or depth).