A new species of Dermomurex (Viator) from northwestern Australia

A new species of the genus Hemitriakis Herre, 1923 (Family Triakidae, Order Carcharhiniformes), is described from off the islands of Bali and Lombok in eastern Indonesia. Hemitriakis indroyonoi is separable from the other congeners, H. abdita, H. complicofasciata, H. falcata, H. japanica and H. leucoperiptera, by a combination of vertebral counts, morphometric characters, and juvenile coloration. H. indroyonoi is most similar to H. falcata from northwestern Australia but differs in juvenile coloration, some meristic and morphological characters, size and cranial morphology. The new species is allopatric to other members of this genus.

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Redescription of a rare bothid,Asterorhombus bleekeri (Macleay), and description of a new species ofAsterorhombus from northwestern Australia (Teleostei: Pleuronectiformes)

Ichthyological Research ◽

10.1007/bf02673923 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 249-257 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kunio Amaoka ◽

Masahito Arai

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Northwestern Australia ◽

A New Species

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Acanthophis cryptamydros Maddock, Ellis, Doughty, Smith & Wüster, 2015 is an invalid junior synonym of Acanthophis lancasteri Wells & Wellington, 1985 (Squamata, Elapidae)

Bionomina ◽

10.11646/bionomina.10.1.5 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 74-75

Author(s):

ROSS WELLINGTON

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Junior Synonym ◽

Nomen Nudum ◽

Northwestern Australia ◽

A New Species

Maddock et al. (2015) described a supposedly new species of death adder (Squamata, Elapidae) from northwestern Australia as Acanthophis cryptamydros. However, Maddock et al. (2015: 307) themselves admitted that this name was a junior synonym of Acanthophis lancasteri Wells & Wellington, 1985: “Since the only existing name applicable to this taxon, Acanthophis lancasteri Wells & Wellington, 1985, is a nomen nudum (Aplin & Donnellan 1999), we describe it as a new species below (...)”.

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Opistognathus ensiferus, a new species of jawfish (Opistognathidae) from the Gulf of Mannar, India, with redescription of O. solorensis Bleeker

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4196.2.6 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4196 (2) ◽

pp. 278

Author(s):

WILLIAM F. SMITH-VANIZ

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Species Group ◽

Gulf Of Mannar ◽

Type Specimens ◽

Color Morphs ◽

Fin Ray ◽

Northwestern Australia ◽

Different Color ◽

Line Ending ◽

A New Species

A new species of jawfish, Opistognathus ensiferus n. sp., is described based on a single specimen from Manauli Reef in the Gulf of Mannar, India. It is a member of a species group that also includes Opistognathus solorensis Bleeker (Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan and Palau) and O. verecundus Smith-Vaniz (northwestern Australia). From these two species O. ensiferus n. sp. differs in lacking dark oral pigmentation, except inner lining of upper jaw and adjacent membranes with a single dark stripe (vs. two stripes) and in having a lateral line ending below the 6th or 7th segmented dorsal-fin ray (vs. below the 1st to 4th ray). Opistognathus solorensis is redescribed and in the absence of extant type specimens a neotype is designated. Two strikingly different color morphs are documented for O. solorensis, including the less common one which is almost entirely yellow.

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