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Issue: Vol. 3583 No. 1: 13 Dec. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-12-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3583.1.5
Page range: 71–76
Abstract views: 80
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of the Genus Microbrotula (Teleostei: Bythitidae) from Cenderawasih Bay, New Guinea, Indonesia

Ahrensburger Weg 103, 22359 Hamburg, Germany
Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen , Denmark
Fish Bythitidae viviparous brotulas Cenderawasih Bay New Guinea Indonesia coral reef fishes new species Microbrotula

Abstract

Following the recent revision of Microbrotula (Schwarzhans & Nielsen, 2011), an additional nine specimens of the vivi-parous genus Microbrotula (Teleostei: Bythitidae), all caught in the Cenderawasih Bay, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indone-sia, were made available to us. These specimens represent a new species described here as M. geraldalleni. It belongs tothe group of species with 6 caudal and 14 pectoral fin rays and is closest to M. greenfieldi, differing in the higher dorsaland anal fin ray counts (68–73 and 61–65 vs. 62–70 and 58–61, respectively), the presence of 3 posterior mandibular pores(vs. none), 2–3 preopercular pores (vs. none), a connected squamation over the head including cheek, opercle and occiput(vs. 3 separated scale patches) and with a unique scale-less triangular window just above the opercle. Microbrotula geraldalleni may be endemic to the Cenderawasih Bay.

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