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Issue: Vol. 3165 No. 1: 19 Jan. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-01-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3165.1.2
Page range: 25–38
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 22

Two new species of striped Pseudochromis from the Philippine Islands and Indonesia, with a redescription of P. colei (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae)

Macleay Museum and School of Biological Sciences, A12 – Macleay Building, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia Ichthyology, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2010, Australia
Western Australian Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Perth, Western Australia 6986, Australia
Conservation International, Jl. Dr. Muwardi No. 17, Denpasar, Bali 80235 Indonesia
Perciformes Pseudochromidae dottyback Pseudochromis eichleri sp. nov. Pseudochromis ammeri sp. nov. Pseudochromis colei systematics

Abstract

Pseudochromis ammeri sp. nov. and P. eichleri sp. nov. are described from Indonesia (Raja Ampat Islands, West Irian andHalmahera) and the Philippines (Calamianes Group, Boracay and northern Palawan), respectively. In having in combina-tion a dark longitudinal stripe on the body and the anterior tip of the palatine tooth patch directed medially behind poste-rolateral arm of vomerine tooth patch, the two species closely resemble P. colei Herre from the Philippines. The latterspecies is redescribed on the basis of the holotype from Culion and two specimens recently collected in northern Palawan. The three species closely resemble each other but differ in live coloration and several scale count characters.

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