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Issue: Vol. 4702 No. 1: 4 Dec. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-12-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4702.1.11
Page range: 60–72
Abstract views: 85
PDF downloaded: 47

Redescription of Liopropoma aragai (Teleostei: Serranidae), with two new confirmed records of species of Liopropoma from Taiwan

National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium, Pingtung 94450, Taiwan Present address: Kuroshio Biological Research Foundation, 560 Nishidomari, Otsuki, Kochi 788-0333, Japan
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Odawara 250-0031, Japan
National Academy of Marine Research, Ocean Affairs Council, Kaohsiung 80661, Taiwan Department of Oceanography, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan
National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium, Pingtung 94450, Taiwan
Pisces Liopropoma lemniscatum Liopropoma lunulatum new records distribution taxonomy

Abstract

Liopropoma aragai Randall & Taylor 1988 is redescribed based on the holotype and non-type specimens from Japan and Taiwan. Diagnostic characters of the species and the status of Taiwanese specimens previously referred to L. aragai are reassessed. Liopropoma lemniscatum Randall & Taylor 1988, previously recorded only from the Pacific coast of Japan and the Ryukyu Archipelago, and L. lunulatum (Guichenot 1863), previously known from Okinawa Island (Japan), Guam, Réunion, Rarotonga and Tahiti, are redescribed, both being confirmed for the first time by voucher specimens from Taiwanese waters. A detailed description of each species and a key to Taiwan Liopropoma Gill 1861 is provided.

 

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