Girella leonina (Richardson, 1846)
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| Japanese shore fishes collected by the United States Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross expedition of 1906 John O Snyder (1912) Proceedings of the United States National Museum 42: 399-450 | |
| A review of the Sparidae and related families found in the waters of Japan D S Jordan and W F Thompson (1912) Proceedings of the United States National Museum 41: 521-601 | |
| Record of fishes obtained in Japan in 1911 David Starr Jordan and Willian Frances Thompson (1914) Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 6(4): 205-313 |