Neomerinthe bathypevimensis sp. nov. from deep waters of the southern Red Sea |
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| Authors: | U. Zajonz W. Klausewitz |
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| Affiliation: | Section Ichthyology, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Senckenberganlage 25, D—60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
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| Abstract: | A new species of scorpionfish Neomerinthe bathyperimensis is described from a single specimen, dredged in deep waters of the southern Red Sea. The type specimen is aberrant in that it lacks the anal-fin spines and their supporting pterygiophores. This is the first record of the genus from the Red Sea and the north-western Indian Ocean. |
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| Keywords: | Scorpaenidae Neomerinthe Red Sea bathydemersal new species |
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