A valid priacanthid species, Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes 1862), and a redescription of P. niphonia (Cuvier in Cuvier %26 Valenciennes 1829) in the Indo-West Pacific (Perciformes: Priacanthidae)

作者：Iwatsuki Yukio^*; Matsuda Tsuyoshi; Starnes Wayne C; Nakabo Tetsuji; Yoshino Tetsuo

来源：Zootaxa, 2012, (3206): 41-57.

• Perciformes
• Priacanthidae
• Taxonomy
• Redescription
• Pristigenys refulgens
• P. niphonia

Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes 1862) is herein redescribed as a valid species although it has long been synonymized under P. niphonia (Cuvier in Cuvier %26 Valenciennes 1829). Pristigenys refulgens differs from the latter in having lower gill raker counts, fewer lateral-line scales and spinules on body scales, shape of the caudal fin, and in fin and body coloration. Pristigenys refulgens is currently known from the Indian and western Pacific oceans from South Africa and the Red Sea eastward to Indonesia and Japan, while P. niphonia is confined to the western Pacific from Japan to northern Australia, and possibly eastward to Samoa. A neotype for Pristigenys niphonia is herein designated. A key is provided for the Indo-West Pacific Pristigenys species.

• 出版日期2012-2-24