Plectranthias yamakawai Yoshino, 1972 Holotype: FAKU 44565, 173 mm SL, female. Type locality: off Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Illustrations: Masuda et al., 1975:50, fig. H; Randall, 1980:184, fig. 32; Yoshino, 1972:50 (fig. 1B), 53 (fig. 3). D: X, 16 to 18. A: III, 7. P: 13. C: 17. V: 26 (10 + 16). S: 3. GR: 5 to 8 + 10 to 13. LL: 31 to 35. CP: 14. Distribution: western Pacific: Japan and Taiwan.

Published as part of William D. Anderson, Jr., 2018, Annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae), pp. 1-62 in Zootaxa 4475 (1) on pages 34-35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4475.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1453283