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Issue: Vol. 4461 No. 2: 21 Aug. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-08-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4461.2.10
Page range: 286–292
Abstract views: 65
PDF downloaded: 4

A new species of Physiculus (Teleostei: Moridae) from the Cape Verde Islands (Eastern Central Atlantic)

Applied Marine Ecology and Fisheries Group, i-UNAT, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus Universitario de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, SPAIN.
Applied Marine Ecology and Fisheries Group, i-UNAT, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus Universitario de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, SPAIN.
Funchal Marine Biology Station, MARE Sea and Environment Sciences Centre & OOM – Madeira Oceanic Observatory, Funchal Natural History Museum, Rua da Mouraria 31, 9004-546 Funchal, Madeira, PORTUGAL.
Pisces Moridae Physiculus caboverdensis new species Cape Verde Islands Eastern Central Atlantic

Abstract

A new species of Physiculus, P. caboverdensis n. sp., is described from the outer shelf and upper slope of the Cape Verde Islands. This species differs from all other congeners from the Atlantic Ocean by its peculiar dentition, composed of large fang-like teeth in both jaws, interspaced with smaller canine-like teeth, arranged in two series on upper jaw and one on lower. This is the tenth species of the genus to occur in the Atlantic Ocean and the third to be recorded from the Cape Verde Islands.

 

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