Eubleekeria Fowler, 1904

Miki, Ryohei, Murase, Atsunobu & Wada, Masaaki, 2018, A checklist of ponyfishes (Teleostei, Leiognathidae) from Miyazaki Prefecture, east coast of Kyushu, southern Japan, with range extensions of three tropical species, Check List 14 (1), pp. 243-255 : 247

Genus Eubleekeria Fowler, 1904

Eubleekeria splendens ( Cuvier, 1829) : Figure 2G, H Equula splendens Cuvier 1829: 212 . Leiognathus splendens — Woodland et al. 2001: 2815. Eubleekeria splendens — Chakrabarty et al. 2010: 112; Kottelat 2013:

338; Senou 2013: 903; Sparks and Chakrabarty 2015: 187; Fuji-

wara and Motomura 2016: 187; Kimura 2017: 123.

Diagnosis. This species is characterized by the following combination of characters: mouth protruding downwards; small slender teeth on both jaws; anterior dorsolateral surface of body and breast completely scaled; conspicuous black blotch on anterior spinous dorsal fin; many wavy transverse dark bars dorsolaterally on body ( Senou 2013).

Distribution. Eubleekeria splendens is widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific. In Japanese waters, this species is known from Urado Bay of Kochi Prefecture, the northern part of Miyazaki Prefecture, Uchinoura Bay (Pacific coast), the Ryukyu Islands, and Yaeyama Islands ( Fig. 1, Table 1: Endo 2012, Senou 2013, Fujiwara and Motomura 2016, this study).

Remarks. A single specimen (70.2 mm SL) of E. splendens was caught from Kadogawa Bay in November.