Leiognathus fasciatus ( Lacepède, 1803 )

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 : 249

Leiognathus fasciatus ( Lacepède, 1803) : Figure 3C, D

Clupea fasciata Lacepède 1803: 425 , 460.

Aurigequula fasciata — Chakrabarty et al. 2010: 110; Sparks and Chakrabarty 2015: 187.

Leiognathus fasciatus — Woodland et al. 2001: 2809; Senou 2013: 903; Fujiwara and Motomura 2016: 195.

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 completely scaled; breast completely naked; second dorsal-fin spines elongated, filamentous; dorsolateral body with 10–15 narrow dark vertical lines; several yellowish spots below lateral line ( Senou 2013).

Distribution. Leiognathus fasciatus is widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific. In Japanese waters, this species is known from Kadogawa Bay of Miyazaki Prefecture (Pacific coast), the coast of Minami-satsuma City of Kagoshima Prefecture (East China Sea), Tanega-shima Island, Amami Island, Tokuno-shima Island, Kume-jima Island, Irabu-jima Island, and Yaeyama Islands ( Fig. 1, Table 1: Senou 2013, Fujiwara and Motomura 2016, this study).

Remarks. A single specimen (91.6 mm SL) of Leiognathus fasciatus was caught from Kadogawa Bay in December. Previously, the northernmost record of the species was the coast of Kasasa Town, the south-western part of Satsuma Peninsula ( Fujiwara and Motomura 2016), and the present specimen of L. fasciatus from Kadogawa Bay extends the known distribution of the species ca 200 km northeastward from Kasasa town.