japonicus, Callanthias Franz [V.] 1910:40, Pl. 6 (fig. 49) [Abhandlungen der math.-phys. Klasse der K. Bayer Akademie der Wissenschaften v. 4 (Suppl.) (no. 1); ref. 1481] Aburatsubo, Sagami Sea, Japan. Holotype (unique): ZSM [old collection] destroyed in WW II. Type catalog: Neumann 2006:268 [ref. 28925]. •Valid as Callanthias japonicus Franz 1910 -- (Katayama in Masuda et al. 1984:138 [ref. 6441], Yamakawa in Okamura et al. 1985:467, 667 [ref. 8056], Nakabo 2000:732 [ref. 25086], Shinohara et al. 2001:322 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:732 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:317, 594 [ref. 26218], Shinohara et al. 2005:431 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:350 [ref. 28379], Shinohara et al. 2011:49 [ref. 31715], Shinohara et al. 2014:260 [ref. 33330], Anderson et al. 2015:25 [ref. 33996], Kim et al. 2020:117 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:57 [ref. 37637], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:147 [ref. 41223] as sp. cf. japonicus). Current status: Valid as Callanthias japonicus Franz 1910. Callanthiidae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Taiwan to Korea and Japan. Habitat: marine.