Ereuniidae - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Ereuniidae is a family of scorpaeniform fishes. They are native to deep marine waters around Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. The lower four rays of the pectoral fin are elongated and free.

Species

There are three species in two genera:

Genus Ereunias
- Ereunias grallator Jordan
  David Starr Jordan
  David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:...
  
  & Snyder, 1901.
Genus Marukawichthys
- Marukawichthys ambulator Sakamoto, 1931.
- Marukawichthys pacificus Yabe, 1983.

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