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Issue: Vol. 5757 No. 2: 4 Feb. 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-02-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5757.2.1
Page range: 101-122
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Two new species of the genus Odontoscion (Teleostei: Sciaenidae) from the Western Atlantic Ocean

Fish-Bizz Ltda; Rua Dona Maria D.N. Garcez; 39; 05424-070; Pinheiros; São Paulo; SP; Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Ambientais e Conservação (PPG-CiAC); Instituto de Biodiversidade e Sustentabilidade; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (NUPEM/UFRJ); Av. São José do Barreto; 764;27965-045; Macaé; Rio de Janeiro; RJ; Brazil
Av. Mário Leal Ferreira; 381;40825-600; Brotas; Salvador; BA; Brazil
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle de Paris; DGD Collections / Vertébrés / Ichtyologie; 43; rue Cuvier - CP 26; 75231; Paris; Cedex 05; France
Laboratório de Ictiologia e Conservação. Universidade Federal de Alagoas. Unidade Educacional Penedo. Av. Beira Rio; s/n.; 57200- 000; Penedo; AL; Brazil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia; Coordenação de Biodiversidade; Av. André Araújo; 2936; Petrópolis; 69067-375 Manaus; AM; Brazil
Brazil Trinidad & Tobago reef croakers genetics integrated taxonomy

Abstract

Three species of reef croakers (Teleostei: Sciaenidae: Odontoscion) are recognized to date, two from the Pacific and one from the Atlantic. Odontoscion dentex (Cuvier) was previously the only species in the Atlantic, known from Florida, Cuba, and the Caribbean to Southeastern Brazil. Here, we describe two new species of Odontoscion from the Western Atlantic based on the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I gene and morphological characters. One species, O. pepojuba sp. nov., inhabits Brazilian coastal waters from the states of Pará to Santa Catarina; the other one, O. pitassyae sp. nov., is known from Trinidad & Tobago and Dominica. A fourth putative species from Florida, labeled here as O. dentex lineage B is also proposed, but yet to be described. The diagnostic characters of the genus are also revised.

 

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Carvalho-Filho, A., Gasparini, J.L., Duarte, L., Pfliger, J., Sampaio, C.L.S. & Araujo, G.S. (2026) Two new species of the genus Odontoscion (Teleostei: Sciaenidae) from the Western Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa, 5757 (2), 101–122. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5757.2.1