Published as part of Matsumoto, Tatsuya, Matsuura, Keiichi & Hanzawa, Naoto, 2021, A new species of nine-spined stickleback, Pungitius modestus (Gasterosteiformes, Gasterosteidae), from northern Honshu, Japan, pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 5005 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5141041

FIGURE 11. Comparisons of lateral plates of Pungitius modestus and P. kaibarae. a) Pungitius modestus, sp. nov., paratype, NSMT-P 140554, 40.5 mm SL. b) P. kaibarae, holotype, ZUMT 8197, 45.0 mm SL. c) P. kaibarae from Korea, non-type, NSMT-P 140556, 31.8 mm SL. Edges of the lateral plates are shown in red.