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Issue: Vol. 3170 No. 1: 24 Jan. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-01-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3170.1.1
Page range: 1–17
Abstract views: 44
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Gobiid fishes of the genus Bryaninops from the Red Sea, with description of two new species and two new records

Kawanishi-modoridai Senior High School, 1-8 Kouyoudai, Kawanishi, Hyogo 666-0115, Japan
Station of Naturalists, S. Tyulenina ul. 13-29, Omsk, 644090, Russia
Bishop Museum, 1523 Bernice St., Honolulu, HI 96817-2704, USA
Pisces Gobiid fishes Red Sea Bryaninops new species new records

Abstract

Three species of the gobiid fish genus Bryaninops were previously known for the Red Sea: B. natans, B. ridens, and B.yongei. Two new species are described, B. discus, similar to B. loki, differing in coloration and in having dish-like insteadof cup-like pelvic fins in adults; and B. spongicolus, closely related to B. dianneae from Fiji, distinct in having shorterpelvic fins, a rounded instead of truncate caudal fin, and differences in life color. Bryaninops loki and B. tigris are reportedas first records for the Red Sea, the former from a specimen from Sudan and an underwater photo from the Sinai Peninsula, the latter from an underwater photo taken off Egypt.

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