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Issue: Vol. 3572 No. 1: 5 Dec. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-12-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3572.1.5
Page range: 33–42
Abstract views: 66
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new dwarfgobies from the Southwestern Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota)

Research Associate, Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Dr., Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California 94118-4503, and Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii. Mailing address: 944 Egan Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Curator Emeritus, Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6; and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A1
Fish Eviota jewettae Eviota pinocchioi

Abstract

Two species of Eviota with red or orange bars crossing the body, a bifurcated 4th pelvic-fin ray with two long branches,and lacking many or all cephalic sensory-canal pores are described from Palau, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Eviotajewettae has a dorsal/anal fin-ray formula of 8/8, 98% of the specimens lack all cephalic sensory-canal pores, 2–4 lowerpectoral-fin rays branched; non-filamentous dorsal-fin spines; short tubular anterior nares that are not black and are lessthan ½ pupil diameter in length, and five wide bars across the body. Eviota pinocchioi has a dorsal/anal fin-ray formulaof 9/8, always lacks the POP and IT pores and the PITO and AITO pores are fused in about 50% of the specimens, un-branched pectoral-fin rays, males with filamentous dorsal-fin spines, tubular anterior nares black and very long, almost equal to the pupil diameter, and six narrow bars across body.

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