World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
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Ishikawa, C. (1904). Notes on some new or little known fishes of Japan. Part I. Proceedings of the Department of Natural History, Tokyo Imperial Museum. 1: 1-17, Pls. 1-7. [Reprinted by Kessinger Legacy Reprints, Whitefish MT, in 2010 with plate 5 missing.].