A new species of the Genus Microbrotula (Teleostei: Bythitidae) from Cenderawasih Bay, New Guinea, Indonesia

Werner Schwarzhans; Jørgen Nielsen

A new species of the Genus Microbrotula (Teleostei: Bythitidae) from Cenderawasih Bay, New Guinea, Indonesia

Abstract

Following the recent revision of Microbrotula (Schwarzhans Nielsen, 2011), an additional nine specimens of the viviparous genus Microbrotula (Teleostei: Bythitidae), all caught in the Cenderawasih Bay, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia, were made available to us. These specimens represent a new species described here as M. geraldalleni. It belongs to the group of species with 6 caudal and 14 pectoral fin rays and is closest to M. greenfieldi, differing in the higher dorsal and anal fin ray counts (68-73 and 61-65 vs. 62-70 and 58-61, respectively), the presence of 3 posterior mandibular pores (vs. none), 2-3 preopercular pores (vs. none), a connected squamation over the head including cheek, opercle and occiput (vs. 3 separated scale patches) and with a unique scale-less triangular window just above the opercle. Microbrotula geraldalleni may be endemic to the Cenderawasih Bay.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Zootaxa
Vol/bind	3583
Sider (fra-til)	71-76
Antal sider	6
ISSN	1175-5326
Status	Udgivet - 2012

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