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Issue: Vol. 3755 No. 3: 22 Jan. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-01-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3755.3.7
Page range: 295–300
Abstract views: 22
PDF downloaded: 2

Eviota piperata, a new gobiid species from Palau (Teleostei: Gobiidae)

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.
Curator Emeritus, Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6; and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A1.
Gobiidae Eviota piperata Dwarfgoby Palau

Abstract

A new species of dwarfgoby, Eviota piperata is described from Palau. It belongs to the cephalic sensory-pore system Group II (lacking only the IT pore); has a dorsal/anal-fin formula of 8/8; has some pectoral-fin rays branched; no dark spot over the ural centrum; the male genital papilla is not fimbriate; and the cheek and body are heavily peppered with chromatophores.