Description: English: Holotype of Tosanoides obama (upper left) alongside presumed female (lower right) immediately prior to collection of the holotype, at a depth of 90 m off Kure Atoll, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Date: 21 December 2016. Source: Pyle, Richard L.; Greene, Brian D.; Kosaki, Randall K. (2016). "Tosanoides obama, a new basslet (Perciformes, Percoidei, Serranidae) from deep coral reefs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands". ZooKeys 641: 165–181.
DOI:
10.3897/zookeys.641.11500. Author: Richard L. Pyle.