Japanese Chromis

description

Tanaka (1917) described Chromis mirationis from the holotype collected off Goto Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The original description of C. mirationis is brief, and not accompanied by an illustration. Two nominal species are currently regarded as synonyms of C. mirationis: C. fraenatus Araga & Yoshino (in Masuda et al., 1975), type locality off Minabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan; Chromis megalopsis Allen 1976, type locality west of Bernier Island, Western Australia. Tanaka’s holotype of C. mirationis is currently listed as lost by Fricke et al. (2019). However, we located the holotype in the Department of Zoology, University Museum, University of Tokyo, Tokyo (ZUMT 3627; Figure 1). Conversely, the holotype and paratype of C. fraenatus (SMBL 72067 and SMBL 73391, respectively) could not be located at in the collection of the Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University (Dr Y. Kai, pers. comm.). Morphometric data for the holotype of C. mirationis are provided in Table 1. The holotypes of both C. mirationis and C. fraenatus were examined by Randall et al. (1981) who concluded that they were conspecific. We concur with this assessment, thus the name C. mirationis should be applied

Chromis tingting, a new species of damselfish from mesophotic coral ecosystems of southern Japan, with notes on C. mirationis Tanaka (Teleostei: Pomacentridae)