japonicum, Pelor Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:437, Pl. 93 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 4; ref. 998] Coast of China and seas of Japan. Syntypes: not at MNHN. Type catalog: Blanc & Hureau 1968:60 [ref. 20738], Inaba & Motomura 2018:75 [ref. 36154]. •Valid as Inimicus japonicus (Cuvier 1829) -- (Eschmeyer et al. 1979:493 [ref. 6385], Shimizu in Masuda et al. 1984:318 [ref. 6441], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:118 [ref. 15964], Cheng & Zhou 1997:418 [ref. 26385], Motomura & Iwatsuki 1997:131 [ref. 23963], Poss 1999:2307 [ref. 24796], Nakabo 2000:596 [ref. 25086], Mandrytsa 2001:273 [ref. 25636], Shimizu 2001:26 [ref. 25799], Wang et al. 2001:289 [ref. 26566] with authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes, Nakabo 2002:596 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:242, 559 [ref. 26218], Inaba & Motomura 2018:75 [ref. 36154], Kim et al. 2020:95 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:46 [ref. 37637]). Current status: Valid as Inimicus japonicus (Cuvier 1829). Synanceiidae: Choridactylinae. Distribution: Western Pacific: northern Vietnam and China east to Korea and southern Sea of Japan. Habitat: marine.