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Understanding the distributional patterns of individual animal groups with respect to coastal topology and the local physical environment provides essential foundational frameworks for marine zoogeography. In the northwestern Pacific waters of Japan, the distributional pattern of some cool-temperate species of marine fishes suggests the existence of a biogeographic boundary corresponding to a long sandy shore on the eastern coast of Kyushu, southern Japan. The existence of this hypothetical biogeographic boundary was tested by mapping the southern distributional limit of two species of cool-temperate intertidal gobies,    Chaenogobius   annularis    and    C.   gulosus   , which are endemic to East Asia and common in rock pools within their range in the Japanese Archipelago. Distribution and abundance were assessed by survey of museum collections from south-east Kyushu (i.e., the entire coasts of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures); and a quantitative survey of the abundance of these gobies in rock pools at various sites around the hypothesized boundary on the eastern coast of Kyushu, including the subtropical Tanega-shima Island. The museum collection survey showed different distribution patterns between the two species:    C.   annularis    was distributed along the entire coasts of south-east Kyushu including subtropical islands, whereas    C.   gulosus    was distributed along these coasts, including one site on a subtropical island, except for an area south of the hypothesized boundary on the eastern coast of Kyushu. The density and occurrence rates of    C.   annularis    in rock pools decreased with latitude, it being absent from a subtropical island, and    C.   gulosus    was not detected from sites south of the hypothesized boundary. The qualitative survey showed that the southernmost records of    C.   annularis    and    C.   gulosus    were the adjacent subtropical islands (Yaku-shima and Tanega-shima islands respectively), although the quantitative survey suggested that their normal range of distribution was limited to the southern part of the Kyushu mainland. A combination of qualitative and quantitative survey methods in the present study highlighted that the southernmost record of a certain species may not necessarily indicate the true limit of its distribution. The distribution of    C.   gulosus    supports the existence of the hypothetical biogeographic boundary, and the different distribution patterns of the two species may be caused by differences in their early life histories.

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Southern limits of distribution of the intertidal gobies    Chaenogobius   annularis    and    C.   gulosus    support the existence of a biogeographic boundary in southern Japan (  Teleostei  ,   Perciformes  ,   Gobiidae  )