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Issue: Vol. 5380 No. 3: 30 Nov. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-11-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.3.6
Page range: 289-294
Abstract views: 260
PDF downloaded: 132

Record of the Amarsipa fish (Family Amarsipidae) from Pratas Island, South China Sea

Department and Graduate Institution of Aquaculture; National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology; Kaohsiung; Taiwan; Institute of Marine Biology; National Dong Hwa University; Hualien; Taiwan; Australian Museum; Sydney; Australia
Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources; National Sun Yat-sen University; Kaohsiung; Taiwan
Biodiversity Research Center; Academia Sinica; Taipei; Taiwan
Department and Graduate Institution of Aquaculture; National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology; Kaohsiung; Taiwan
Pisces Biodiversity ichthyology taxonomy new record Taiwan

Abstract

Two specimens of the rare Amarsipa fish, Amarsipus carlsbergi, were collected from Pratas Island in the northern South China Sea. They represent the first record of Taiwanese EEZ and fill the distribution gap in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between Japan (East China Sea) and Vietnam. The two specimens were identified based on their diagnostic characteristics, including no pharyngeal sacs, a pelvic fin well in front of the pectoral fin, a slender body and other morphology. Detailed data and descriptions of these two specimens, including a description of otolith morphology, are provided.

 

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