Brama japonica Hilgendorf, 1878

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 157

Brama japonica Hilgendorf, 1878 .

Pacific Pomfret or Small-scaled Pomfret. To 61.4 cm (24.2 in) FL ( Pearcy and Fisher 1993); also reported to 122 cm (4 ft) ( Jordan and Evermann 1896b) but without documentation. Southern Sea of Japan, and off southern coast of Korean Peninsula ( Lindberg and Krasyukova 1969), to Pacific Ocean south of Aleutian Islands, and southern Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Chile ( Robertson and Allen 2002); apparently absent from tropics ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Oceanic, primarily epipelagic; depth: surface to 620 m (2,034 ft) (min.: Mead 1972; max.: Moser and Mundy in Moser 1996).