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Issue: Vol. 2008 No. 1: 11 Feb. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-02-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2008.1.2
Page range: 23–28
Abstract views: 60
PDF downloaded: 45

A new species of the flathead genus Onigocia (Teleostei: Platycephalidae) collected from the Coral and Tasman Seas

Fisheries Science Center, the Hokkaido University Museum, 3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hakodate, Hokkaido 041-8611, Japan
Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C. 20560, U.S.A.
Fish Onigocia lacrimalis sp. nov. Platycephalidae Coral Sea Tasman Sea

Abstract

A new species of platycephalid, Onigocia lacrimalis, is described on the basis of specimens collected from the Chesterfield Islands (Coral Sea) and Norfolk Ridge (Tasman Sea), at depths of 111–330 m. Onigocia lacrimalis differs from the six congeners of the genus in having 12–13 (usually 12) second dorsal-fin rays, 12 anal-fin rays, 21–25 pectoral-fin rays, 8 branched caudal-fin rays, anterior 2–4 scales of the lateral line with a spine, and a single preocular spine, and in lacking gill rakers on the upper arch, ocular and interopercular flaps, and distinct antrorse lachrymal spines.

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