japonicus, Bembras Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:282, Pl. 83 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 4; ref. 998] Japan. Holotype: ZMB 8194 (dry). Type catalog: Blanc & Hureau 1968:60 [ref. 20738], Paepke & Fricke 1992:278 [ref. 19946]. •Valid as Bembras japonicus Cuvier 1829 -- (Knapp 1979:52 [ref. 14196], Ochiai in Masuda et al. 1984:321 [ref. 6441], Yatou in Okamura et al. 1985:597, 728 [ref. 8056], Shao & Chen 1987:80 [ref. 8042], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:159 [ref. 15964], Paxton et al. 1989:466 [ref. 12442], Chen et al. 1997:172 [ref. 26476], Imamura & Knapp 1997:12 [ref. 22682], Imamura & Knapp 1998:166 [ref. 23383], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:606 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:28 [ref. 25847], Shinohara et al. 2014:247 [ref. 33330]). •Valid as Bembras japonica Cuvier 1829 -- (Poss 1999:2384 [ref. 24796], Nakabo 2000:614 [ref. 25086], Shinohara et al. 2001:318 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:614 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:257, 569 [ref. 26218], Shinohara et al. 2005:427 [ref. 28370], Shinohara et al. 2011:43 [ref. 31715], Imamura et al. 2018:[1] [ref. 35952], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 29 [ref. 38321] misidentified, Kim et al. 2020:97 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:47 [ref. 37637]). Current status: Valid as Bembras japonica Cuvier 1829. Bembridae. Distribution: Western Pacific: China and Taiwan to Korea and Japan. Habitat: marine.