Grammoplites vittatus (Valenciennes), (Scorpaeniformes, Platycephalidae), removed from synonymy with Grammoplites scaber (Linnaeus)

LESLIE W. KNAPP; HISASHI IMAMURA

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3846.3.8

Issue: Vol. 3846 No. 3: 4 Aug. 2014

Type: Correspondence

Published: 2014-08-04

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.3.8

Page range: 447–450

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Grammoplites vittatus (Valenciennes), (Scorpaeniformes, Platycephalidae), removed from synonymy with Grammoplites scaber (Linnaeus)

LESLIE W. KNAPP⁺⁻
HISASHI IMAMURA⁺⁻

Research Associate, Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 534 Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A.

Laboratory of Marine Biology and Diversity (Systematic Ichthyology), Faculty of Fisheries Science, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hakodate, Hokkaido, 041-8611, Japan

Grammoplites vittatus Grammoplites scaber. Platycephalidae

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Abstract

Grammoplites vittatus (Valenciennes), often previously overlooked by authors or regarded as a junior synonym of G. scaber (Linnaeus), is shown here to be a valid species. It has more gill rakers (7–8) then G. scaber and G. knappi (usually 6) and a narrower interorbital width than G. scaber. A key to the species of Grammoplites Fowler is given.