Kaupichthys japonicus is an eel in the family Chlopsidae.Kaupichthys japonicus at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Kiyomatsu Matsubara and Hirotoshi Asano in 1960.Matsubara, K., and H. Asano, 1960 (12 Jan.) [ref. 11928] A new eel of the genus Kaupichthys. Copeia 1959 (no. 4): 293-297. It was originally a subspecies of Kaupichthys diodontus (the common false moray). It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from Japan (from which its specific epithet is derived) and the South China Sea, in the western Pacific Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of . K. japonicus spawns in the summer.
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