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Issue: Vol. 3437 No. 1: 24 Aug. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-08-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3437.1.2
Page range: 24–31
Abstract views: 69
PDF downloaded: 3

Colletteichthys flavipinnis, a new toadfish species from Sri Lanka and India (Teleostei: Batrachoididae)

Research Associate, Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Dr., Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California 94118-4599 and Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii
Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Post Box No. 1603, Cochin -682018, Kerala, India
Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Post Box No. 1603, Cochin -682018, Kerala, India
Fish Batrachoididae Colletteichthys dussumieri Colletteichthys occidentalis India Sri Lanka

Abstract

The third known species in the genus Colletteichthys is described from Sri Lanka and India. Colletteichthys flavipinnisdiffers from C. dussumieri in having one instead of two or more tentacles above the eye. It differs from both C. occidentalisand C. dussumieri in having yellow-orange fins, and from C. occidentalis in usually having 16 instead of 15 anal-fin raysand 20 instead of 19 dorsal-fin rays, and in having a slightly smaller ( 1–2% SL) eye. Mitochondrial COI barcode interspecific distance is 4.4% between C. flavippinis and C. dussumieri.

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