New Findings of Rare Fish Species in Indian and Pacific Oceans
with the Description of Two New Species
from the Families Gobiidae and Platycephalidae
A. M. Prokofieva, b
Translated by A. Lisenkova
aSevertsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 119071 Russia
bShirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 117218 Russia
Correspondence to: e-mail: prokartster@gmail.com
Received 9 March, 2017
Abstract—We provide information about the morphology and new findings of 15 rare fish species from the families Bathyclupeidae, Callionymidae, Champsodontidae, Cottidae, Gobiidae, Lophichthyidae, Melanostomiidae, Moridae, Oneirodidae, Paralepididae, Pegasidae, Platycephalidae, and Uranoscopidae. Two new species are described: Thysanophrys haploblepharis sp. n. (Platycephalidae) from the Western Indian Ocean and Vanderhorstia stegauchenia sp. n. (Gobiidae) from the South China Sea. The new synonymy is established: Cottus dybowskii Hilgendorf, 1879 = Myoxocephalus brandtii.
Keywords: Teleostei, systematics, faunistics, Indo-Pacific
DOI: 10.1134/S0032945217060108