Parabembras curta, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Bembridae, the deepwater flatheads.

Parabembras curta was first formally described as Brembras curtus in 1843 by Coenraad Jacob Temminck and Hermann Schlegel with its type locality given as Nagasaki in Japan.

[4] The specific name curta means "short" and although Temminck and Schlegel did not explain this it is thought to be a reference to the shorter snout of this species in conmparison to Brembas japonicus.

[5] Parabembras curta has a head and body which is reddish orange and white ventrally.

[1] Parabembras curta is found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean where it has been recorded from Japan and Korea south to Taiwan and mainland China.