ABSTRACT
Shizuoka Prefecture, located in central Honshu, has a surface area of about 7780 km2. First of all, an extraordinary difference of altitude in Shizuoka brings great variation of water conditions. In horizontal view, there exist various aquatic habitats along Shizuoka shoreline which has a length of about 507 km. The first scientific accounts and collections of fishes of Shizuoka were made by Matthew Calbraith Perry's 1854 second expedition to Japan for negotiating the opening of Japanese ports to American trade. The accounts and illustrations of the fishes collected by Perry were published by James Carson Brevoort in second volume of Perry's report. Brevoort appears not to have examined any preserved specimens of fishes obtained by Perry's expedition. There appear to be two main issues to be resolved for making a better inventory of fishes in the Shizuoka region: one is lack of voucher specimens for many species and the other is insufficiency of field surveys, particularly in shallow coastal waters.
