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).