''Kaupichthys japonicus'' is an eel in the family Chlopsidae.''Kaupichthys japonicus''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by

Kiyomatsu Matsubara was a Japanese marine biologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Born Kiyomatsu Sakamoto in Hyogo Prefecture, Kiyomatsu Matsubara was the first professor of the Department of Fisheries of the University of Kyoto and is considered to be the fou ...

and Hirotoshi Asano in 1960.Matsubara, K., and H. Asano, 1960 (12 Jan.) ef. 11928''A new eel of the genus Kaupichthys.'' Copeia 1959 (no. 4): 293-297. It was originally a

subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...

of ''Kaupichthys diodontus'' (the common false moray). It is a tropical,

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eel which is known from

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

(from which its

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is derived) and the South China Sea, in the western Pacific Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of . ''K. japonicus'' spawns in the summer.

References

Chlopsidae Fish described in 1960 Taxa named by Kiyomatsu Matsubara Taxa named by Hirotoshi Asano {{Anguilliformes-stub