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Published: 2020-04-09
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A new deep-bodied species of Antigonia (Teleostei, Antigoniidae) from the
Andaman Sea (northeastern Indian Ocean)

A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia, and P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovsky pr. 36, Moscow 117218, Russia
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153, Rome, Italy South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
Pisces Antigonia emanuela n. sp. morphology taxonomy trawl survey R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen Myanmar

Abstract

A new species of boarfish, Antigonia emanuela, is described from two specimens collected in the Andaman Sea off the coast of Myanmar during bottom trawl surveys conducted by the R/V Dr Fridtjof Nansen in 2015 and 2018. It is unique within the genus in the combination of the deeply rhomboid body (1.1–1.2 times deeper than long), nine dorsal-fin spines, premaxilla strongly bent in middle, scales with deep apical crest armed with numerous spinules, soft dorsal, anal and caudal fins bright-yellow in life. Two other Antigonia species captured during these surveys are A. indica and A. ovalis, the latter species being a first report for the Andaman Sea.

 

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