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The penaeid shrimp, Metapenaeopsis sibogae (De Man, 1907) was previously known only from deep waters in Indonesia and the Philippines. In the present study, the occurrence of this species was reported for the first time from Japanese waters, based on twenty-one specimens collected from Kagoshima Bay, southern Japan, between 130 and 148 m depth. As a result of morphological examination, the ratio of rostrum length to carapace length was found a useful character to distinguish M. sibogae from the sympatric species, M. lata Kubo, 1949, and subspecies, M. provocatoria owstoni Shinomiya & Sakai, 2000. The body colouration of live specimens of M. sibogae is also described.