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A valid priacanthid species, Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes 1862), and a redescription of P. niphonia (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829) in the Indo-West Pacific (Perciformes: Priacanthidae)

Department of Marine Biology & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, 1−1 Gakuen-kibanadai-nishi, Miyazaki 889-2192, Japan
The Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium, 1-3 Minato-machi, Minato-ku, Nagoya 455-0033, Japan
North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Laboratory, MSC #1626, Raleigh, NC 27699 U.S.A.
The Kyoto University Museum, Yoshida, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Department of Marine Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus, 1 Senbaru, Nishihara-cho, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
Pisces Perciformes Priacanthidae Taxonomy Redescription Pristigenys refulgens P. niphonia

Abstract

Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes 1862) is herein redescribed as a valid species although it has long been synonymizedunder P. niphonia (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829). Pristigenys refulgens differs from the latter in having lowergill raker counts, fewer lateral-line scales and spinules on body scales, shape of the caudal fin, and in fin and body color-ation. Pristigenys refulgens is currently known from the Indian and western Pacific oceans from South Africa and the RedSea eastward to Indonesia and Japan, while P. niphonia is confined to the western Pacific from Japan to northern Australia,and possibly eastward to Samoa. A neotype for Pristigenys niphonia is herein designated. A key is provided for the IndoWest Pacific Pristigenys species.

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