kamii, Plectranthias Randall [J. E.] 1980:141, Fig. 14 [Micronesica v. 16 (no. 1); ref. 6717] Naha fish market, Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Holotype: BPBM 19636. Paratypes: BPBM 5845 (1), USNM 219329 (1). Type catalog: Anderson 2018:29 [ref. 36146]. •Synonym of Plectranthias anthioides (Günther 1872) -- (Lee 1990:13 [ref. 19830], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2470 [ref. 24815]). •Valid as Plectranthias kamii Randall 1980 -- (Katayama in Masuda et al. 1984:134 [ref. 6441], Shen & Lin 1984:9 [ref. 13822], Randall 1996:118 [ref. 23194], Nakabo 2000:695 [ref. 25086], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:610 [ref. 25122], Chen & Shao 2002:64 [ref. 25977], Nakabo 2002:695 [ref. 26001], Myers & Donaldson 2003:620 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2005:120 [ref. 28745], Wu et al. 2011:253 [ref. 31227], Motomura et al. 2010:99 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:385 [ref. 31242], Allen & Walsh 2015:83 [ref. 33954], Motomura et al. 2015:20 [ref. 34709], Koeda et al. 2016:28 [ref. 35333], Okamoto & Motomura 2017:51 [ref. 35248], Anderson 2018:29 [ref. 36146], Peristiwady et al. 2019:74 [ref. 36694], Wada et al. 2020:11 [ref. 37270], Parenti & Randall 2020:26 [ref. 37354], Tang et al. 2020:512 [ref. 37536], Gill et al. 2021:68 [ref. 38105], Furuhashi & Motomura 2022:8 [ref. 39607], Wada & Senou 2024:121 [ref. 40988]). Current status: Valid as Plectranthias kamii Randall 1980. Anthiadidae. Distribution: East Indian Ocean - Central Pacific: Indonesia, Lord Howe Island, Christmas Island, Coral Sea (Australia) east to Mariana Islands, Society Islands, New Caledonia, north to Taiwan and southern Japan. Habitat: marine.