Lepidotrigla kishinouyi was first formally described in 1911 by the American ichthyologist John Otterbein Snyder with its type locality given as Kagoshima in Japan.

[2] The specific name honours Kamakichi Kishinouye, who was head of the Imperial Fisheries Bureau of Japan.

There is a large blackish-blue blotchmarked with scattered small whitish spotson the lower half of the inner pectoral fin.

[5] Lepidotrigla kishinouyi is found in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean where it has been recorded from the Sea of Japan to the East China Sea south of the Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan south to the coastal waters of Taiwan.

[1] This is a demersal fish found on sandy-mud substrates at depths between 40 and 140 m (130 and 460 ft).