japonicus, Physiculus Hilgendorf [F. M.] 1879:80 [Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1879; ref. 18288] Yokohama, Japan. Holotype: ZMB 10624. •Valid as Physiculus japonicus Hilgendorf 1879 -- (Okamura in Okamura et al. 1982:131, 345 [ref. 8256], Sawada in Amaoka et al. 1983:103, 191 [ref. 8379], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:91 [ref. 6441], Okamura in Okamura & Kitajima 1984:191, 354 [ref. 8057], Paulin 1989:112 [ref. 9297] as japonica, Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:370 [ref. 18936] as japonica, Shinohara et al. 1996:171 [ref. 26605], Nakabo 2000:410 [ref. 25086], Iwamoto in Randall & Lim 2000:595 [ref. 25122], Shinohara et al. 2001:303 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:410 [ref. 26001], Shinohara et al. 2005:415 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:260 [ref. 28379] as japonica, Shinohara et al. 2011:40 [ref. 31715], Yu & Ho 2012:47 [ref. 32507], Shinohara et al. 2014:241 [ref. 33330], Parin et al. 2014:170 [ref. 33547], Jang et al. 2016:32 [ref. 36306], Kim et al. 2020:73 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:28 [ref. 37637], Kim et al. 2021:86 [ref. 39117], Koeda et al. 2021:5 [ref. 38857], Tang 2021:115 [ref. 38713]). Current status: Valid as Physiculus japonicus Hilgendorf 1879. Moridae. Distribution: Northwestern and northern central Pacific: Taiwan, Korea and Japan north to Kuril Islands; Hawaiian Islands. Habitat: marine.