Johnsonina is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Triacanthodidae, the spikefishes.

[6] Johnsonina has a deep, slightly compressed body with klarge eyes and a small mouth which opens at the front.

The lower surface of the pevis has a flat scales covered partwhich is long and tapering, widest at the front between spines of the pelvic fins.

The color of the ehad and body is pale pinkish-brown, the upper half with orange -pink marbling, There is a large eye on the rear upper side which has a black centre enclosed in a thin orange ring which is enclosed within a wider white ring.

[7] Johnsonina eriomma is distributed from the Bahamas, south through the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and the western Caribbean off Panama and Nicaragua.