RESEARCH ARTICLE
Preliminary review of the pempherid
fish genus Parapriacanthus of the western Indian
Ocean, with descriptions of five new species
John E. Randall & Sergey
V. Bogorodsky
Abstract
The pempherid fish genus
Parapriacanthus Steindachner, 1870 is represented
in the western Indian Ocean by seven species: P.
guentheri (Klunzinger, 1871), a Red Sea endemic
long mistakenly considered a synonym of P. ransonneti
Steindachner, 1870 from Japan; P. argenteus
(von Bonde, 1923), described from South Africa, also
falsely regarded as a synonym of P. ransonneti;
and the following five new species: P. darros
n. sp., type locality D’Arros Island, Seychelles;
P. kwazulu, n. sp., type locality Park Rynie,
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; P. punctulatus
n. sp., type locality Sodwana Bay, KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa; P. rahah n. sp., type locality
Rahah Bay, south coast of Oman; and P. sharm
n. sp., type locality Gulf of Aqaba, Sinai Peninsula,
the second Red Sea endemic species. The syntypes of
P. argenteus have been lost; a neotype is designated,
described, and deposited in the collection of the
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity,
Grahamstown, South Africa.
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CITATION:
Randall, J.E. & Bogorodsky,
S.V. (2016) Preliminary review of the pempherid fish
genus Parapriacanthus of the western Indian
Ocean, with descriptions of five new species. Journal
of the Ocean Science Foundation, 20, 1-24.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.47480
publication date: 14 March
2016
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