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Issue: Vol. 3522 No. 1: 19 Oct. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-10-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3522.1.2
Page range: 42–48
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 3

Eviota fallax, a New Dwarfgoby from the Western Pacific (Teleostei: Gobiidae)

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. Mailing address: 944 Egan Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Department of Aquatic Zoology, Western Australian Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Perth, Western Australia 6986
Fish Teleostei Gobiidae Eviota Eviota fallax Eviota karaspila Eviota melasma Eviota natalis Eviota smaragdus new species Indonesia

Abstract

Eviota fallax is described from West Papua, Indonesia and also is known from Bali, Banda, and Sangihe Island, Indonesia,New Britain, Solomon Islands, Yap, Ngulu Atoll, and the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. The species has an occipital spot (moreobvious in males and preserved specimens), a complete cephalic sensory-pore system (Group I), and a dorsal/anal formulaof 9/8, characters shared with E. karaspila, E. melasma, and E. smaragdus. It differs from these species in coloration, measurements and pelvic-fin structure.

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