A new species of frogfish of the genus Histiophryne (Teleostei: Lophiiformes: Antennariidae) from Lombok and Komodo, Indonesia

作者：Arnold Rachel J^*

来源：Zootaxa, 2012, (3253): 62-68.

• Teleostei
• Lophiiformes
• Antennarioidei
• Antennariidae
• Histiophryne
• pogonius
• new species
• taxonomy
• marine
• Indonesia

Histiophryne pogonius, a new species of frogfish of the teleost order Lophiiformes, family Antennariidae, is described from a total of five specimens: three collected in shallow waters surrounding Lombok, Indonesia, one reportedly from the nearshore waters of Cebu, Philippines, and a photograph of a specimen from Komodo Island, Indonesia. The new taxon differs from its congeners in having an extremely small illicium and esca, barely discernible even with aid of a dissecting microscope; dark pink pigmentation overlaying a pale pink background, including a dark pink basidorsal spot; a small white encrusted patch of skin always present posterior to pectoral-fin origin, with similar patches sometimes present on cheeks; body everywhere covered with small dark reddish to black spots, including lips and outer margins of the sclera, spots encircled by a thin white ring; cheeks with shallow depressions, giving head a pitted appearance; head lightly covered with cutaneous cirri, especially around edges of opercle; upper and lower lips with short cutaneous cirri; and genetic divergence in mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase c subunit I (COI). The new species is described and compared with its congeners, and a phylogenetic tree based on the nuclear recombination activation gene-2 (RAG2) and mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase c subunit I (COI) and 16S genes is presented.

• 出版日期2012-4-2