A new species of Timorichthys (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) from the East China Sea

Jørgen Nielsen; Makoto Okamoto; Werner Schwarzhans

doi:10.1007/s10228-013-0341-3

A new species of Timorichthys (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) from the East China Sea

Jørgen Nielsen, Makoto Okamoto, Werner Schwarzhans

Abstract

A new bythitid fish, Timorichthys angustus, is described on the basis of a single specimen (52 mm in standard length, SL) collected from the East China Sea, Japan. The genus Timorichthys Nielsen and Schwarzhans 2011 was only known from the holotype of the type species Timorichthys disjunctus Nielsen and Schwarzhans 2011 caught in the Timor Sea. The new species differs from T. disjunctus in several characters, such as the pectoral fin peduncle being much longer than its width (vs. equal in T. disjunctus), precaudal vertebrae 22 (vs. 16), total vertebrae 62 (vs. 52), long rakers on the first gill arch 14 (vs. 6), horizontal eye diameter 3.1 % SL (vs. 1.3 % SL), interorbital width 0.8 % SL (vs. 3.3 % SL), posterior mandibular pore absent (vs. present), anterior infraorbital pores 1 (vs. 3), opercular spine not covered by skin (vs. covered by skin), otolith height to thickness 2.5 (vs. 1.8), and head and body light brown in alcohol (vs. dark brown).

Original language	English
Journal	Ichthyological Research
Volume	60
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	237-240
Number of pages	4
ISSN	1341-8998
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-013-0341-3
Publication status	Published - Jul 2013

Keywords

Bythitinae
East China Sea
Japan
New species
Ophidiiformes
Timorichthys

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