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Issue: Vol. 4208 No. 5: 20 Dec. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-12-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.5.5
Page range: 474–484
Abstract views: 83
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Neobathyclupea from the northern Indian Ocean with comments on N. malayana (Teleostei, Perciformes, Bathyclupeidae)

Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 33, Moscow, 119071 Russia
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy
Pisces False herrings Bathyclupeidae taxonomy preopercular morphology postcranial skeleton Indian Ocean

Abstract

A new species of Neobathyclupea is described from two specimens collected off Myanmar and off Socotra Island. The new species is most similar to N. malayana, but differs from it and other congeners in having jet-black coloured fins, larger pseudobranch, dorsal-pterygiophore pattern and some body proportions. Neobathyclupea malayana is re-diagnosed. Individual variations in armament of the preopercle and in the dorsal-pterygiophore patterns within Bathyclupeidae are discussed.

 

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