Tosana niwae Smith & Pope, 1906

Holotype: USNM 55618, 110 mm TL.

Type locality: Urado Bay, near Kochi, Japan. Illustrations: Katayama, 1960: pl. 19; Kuiter, 2004:85, bottom fig.

D: X, 13 or 14. A: III, 6 or 7. P: 15 or 16. C: 15. V: 26 (10 + 16 or 11 + 15). S: 2. GR: 34 to 37 (10 to 12 + 23 to 25). LL: 34 to 37.

Distribution: western Pacific; possibly also from the Persian Gulf off Bahrain (Randall, 1995b:125, noted that Al-Baharna, 1986, reported this species in her Fishes of Bahrain without any information on locality or depth).