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Issue: Vol. 3140 No. 1: 22 Dec. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-12-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3140.1.4
Page range: 49–59
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 37

Description of two new species of Pseudochrominae from northern Palawan and Mindoro, Philippine Islands (Teleostei: Perciformes: Pseudochromidae)

Macleay Museum and School of Biological Sciences, A12 - Macleay Building, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia Ichthyology, The Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2010, Australia
Division of Fishes, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746, USA
Fish Pseudochromis Manonichthys new species systematics Philippines

Abstract

Pseudochromis fuligifinis is described from 12 specimens from Verde Island, west coast of Mindoro and Apo Reef in the Philippines. It closely resembles P. elongatus Lubbock from Indonesia and P. striatus Gill, Shao & Chen from the Batanes Islands, Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, but differs in various meristic and coloration details. Manonichthys scintilla is described from five specimens from Coron Island and Apo Reef. It differs from congeners in fin shape and live coloration details.

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