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Issue: Vol. 4121 No. 5: 13 Jun. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.5.9
Page range: 589–599
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new dwarfgobies from the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota)

Research Associate, Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Dr., Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California 94118-4503, and Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii. Mailing address: 944 Egan Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950.
2920 Rosemary Lane, Falls Church, VA 22042-1814.
Pisces gobies Eviota asymbasia Eviota bipunctata Eviota piperata Dwarfgoby coral-reef fishes new species taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of dwarfgobies are described, Eviota asymbasia from the Sulu Sea, Philippine Islands, south to Java and west to Damar, and E. bipunctata occurring from the Indian Ocean eastward into the western Pacific Ocean. Eviota asymbasia lacks the IT pore of the cephalic sensory-pore system and usually also the POP, has a dorsal/anal-fin formula of 8/8, has some pectoral-fin rays branched and usually 15 rays, two spots on the pectoral-fin base, no dark spot over the preural centrum, first dorsal fin may be filamentous, six ventral postanal spots, and the male genital papilla is not fimbriate. Eviota bipunctata belongs to the group with cephalic sensory-pore system pattern 2 (lacking only the IT pore), some pectoral-fin rays branched, pectoral-fin base with 1 or 2 prominent dark spots, dorsal/anal-fin formula usually 8/8, and no occipital spots.

 

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