Northernmost records of 14 fish species collected from Ibaraki Prefecture, central Honshu, Japan

Fourteen species of southern fishes, Myripristis kochiensis Randall and Yamakawa, 1996, Hippichthys (Hippichthys) spicifer (Rüppell, 1838), Pristiapogon kallopterus (Bleeker, 1856), Lutjanus fulvus (Forster, 1801), Chaetodon melannotus Bloch and Schneider, 1801, Centropyge vrolikii (Bleeker, 1853), Pyc-nochromis margaritifer (Fowler, 1946), Abudefduf sexfasciatus (Lacepède, 1801), Cirripectes castaneus (Valenciennes, 1836), Oxyurichthys cornutus McCulloch and Waite, 1918, Oxyurichthys lonchotus (Jenkins, 1903), Ctenochaetus striatus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825), Bothus pantherinus (Rüppell, 1830) and Lactoria fornasini (Bianconi, 1846), were collected from Ibaraki Prefecture, Pacific coast of Honshu Island, Japan. These specimens represent the first record of each species from Ibaraki Prefecture and the northernmost records in Japan.