Tokudaia muenninki Johnson, 1946 . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 59:170.

TYPE LOCALITY: Japan, Ryukyu Isls, N Okinawa Isl, Hentona (western coast) .

DISTRIBUTION: Known by modern specimens from Okinawa, and Late Pleistocene and Holocene samples from Okinawa and adjacent island of Le-jima (Kawamura, 1989).

STATUS: IUCN - Endangered.

COMMENTS: Originally described as a subspecies of T. osimensis (Johnson, 1946), chromosomal evidence, as well as external and cranial morphology, clearly distinguished muenninki as a separate species (Tsuchiya, 1981).