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Issue: Vol. 3197 No. 1: 17 Feb. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-02-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3197.1.3
Page range: 55–62
Abstract views: 43
PDF downloaded: 2

Eviota atriventris, a New Goby Previously Misidentified as Eviota pellucida Larson (Teleostei: Gobiidae)

Research Associate, Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Dr., Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California 94118-4599 and Emeritus Professor, University of Hawaii. Mailing address: 944 Egan Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
Kawanishi-midoridai Senior High School, 1-8 Kouyoudai, Kawanishi, Hyogo 666-0115, Japan
Pisces Teleostei Gobiidae Eviota new species S.W. Pacific

Abstract

A species commonly identified as Eviota pellucida in the literature has been misidentified and is in fact an undescribedspecies, described here as E. atriventris. Eviota pellucida is known only from the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, Ponape,Mariana Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Eviota atriventris is known from the Ryukyu Islands, Philippine Islands,Palau Islands, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, and the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Eviota atriventris differs from E. pellucida in both preserved and live coloration and in pectoral-fin ray counts.

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