scholarly journals A New Species of Cocotropus (Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Aploactinidae) from South Africa, Western Indian Ocean

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisashi Imamura ◽  
Gento Shinohara
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
A New Species

Callogobius winterbottomi, a new species of goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Western Indian Ocean

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3630 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
NAOMI R. DELVENTHAL ◽  
RANDALL D. MOOI
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Caudal Peduncle ◽  
Additional Specimen ◽  
Group A ◽  
Urogenital Papilla ◽  
A New Species

Callogobius winterbottomi new species is described from the 33.8 mm SL holotype and two paratypes (32.2 mm SL and 22.9 mm SL) from the Comoros, Western Indian Ocean. It is distinguished from all other known Callogobius species by the following combination of characters: sensory pores absent, 23–26 scales in lateral series, and sensory papillae pre-opercular row not continuous with transverse opercular row. One additional specimen of Callogobius winterbottomi was located from South Africa. A new standardized naming system for Callogobius sensory papillae rows is presented for identification and clarification of character states among Callogobius species. The new species is tentatively placed among what we term the “sclateri group”, a clade including C. sclateri (Steindachner) and three other species that exhibit a modified female urogenital papilla with lateral distal flaps and elongate ctenii on the caudal peduncle scales. Callogobius tutuilae (Jordan & Seale) is removed from synonymy with C. sclateri because it has partially united pelvic fins (vs separate) and the preopercular sensory papillae row is continuous with the transverse opercular row (vs separate).

scholarly journals The species of Moloha Barnard, 1946, from the western Indian Ocean, with the description of a new species from India (Crustacea: Brachyura: Homolidae)

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter K.L. Ng ◽  
Appukuttannair Biju Kumar
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Southern India ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The taxonomy of the deep-water homolid crabs Moloha grandperrini Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995 and M. alisae Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995 is re-examined, and the types redescribed and figured. Moloha alisae is reported from South Africa for the first time. A new species with an inflated carapace, M. tumida sp. nov., is also described from southern India and compared with its closest congeners.

On the identities of Pinnotheres villosissimus Doflein, 1904, P. dofleini Lenz, in Lenz & Strunck, 1914, and P. pilumnoides Nobili, 1906 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Pinnotheridae) from the western Indian Ocean

Crustaceana ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 611-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter K. L. Ng
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
The Third ◽  
A New Species

Abstract Doflein (1904) accidentally transposed the figures for the third maxillipeds of two species of pinnotherid crabs he described, a mistake which has taxonomic consequences. The species he described, Pinnotheres villosissimus Doflein, 1904, from Sumatra, is here referred to its own genus, Trichobezoares n. gen. The specimen Doflein identified as “Pinnotheres sp.” from South Africa was referred to a new species, Pinnotheres dofleini by Lenz (in Lenz & Strunck, 1914) partly based on Doflein’s (1904) incorrect figure of the third maxilliped. To stabilize the taxonomy of this species, Doflein’s specimen is selected as the lectotype; fixing the species as a member of Afropinnotheres Manning, 1993. Pinnotheres pilumnoides Nobili, 1906 (Djibouti) was differentiated from the taxon T. villosissimus partially on differences in the third maxilliped. It is redescribed, figured and shown to be a second species of Trichobezoares. The correct authorship for the species established in Lenz & Strunck (1914) is also discussed.

Naso mcdadei, a new species of unicornfish (Perciformes : Acanthuridae), with a review of the Naso tuberosus species complex

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 293 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Body Depth ◽  
Southern Taiwan ◽  
Chagos Archipelago ◽  
The Western Pacific ◽  
A New Species

An immaculate square-nosed acanthurid fish of the genus Naso, previously misidentified as N. tuberosus, is described as a new species, N. mcdadei. The species is widespread, but appears uncommon, being known from only 10 specimens and five underwater photographs. It is described from specimens from tropical eastern and western Australia, southern Indonesia, Mauritius, and Natal, South Africa. Its occurrence is confirmed from off western Sumatra, the Maldives, Chagos Archipelago and southern Taiwan by photographs. It differs from N. tuberosus (Lacèpede, 1801) and N. tonganus (Valenciennes, 1835) most notably through smaller, more numerous teeth and a generally uniform greyish colouration. The head, body and fins all lack numerous small dark spots that are variously present in the latter two species. In adults, it also differs through a squarish rather than rounded tuberosity on the snout, a shorter straighter nasal groove, lack of a discernible hump in the dorsal profile, smaller-scale tubercles, non-prominent jaws, and first rather than last dorsal spine longest.The species previously recognised as N. tuberosus is split into two closely related taxa, N. tonganus (Valenciennes) from the western Pacific and Indian Oceans and N. tuberosus Lac�pede from the central and western Indian Ocean. These species differ mainly in the size and shape of the nasal tuberosity, dorsal profile, body depth, and colouration.

scholarly journals A new species of Tortanus (Atortus) (Copepoda: Calanoida: Tortanidae) from Rodrigues Island, Mauritius

2003 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susumu Ohtsuka ◽  
David V.P. Conway
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Arabian Gulf ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Faunal Element ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the copepod genus Tortanus (Atortus) (Copepoda: Calanoida), T. (A.) insularis, is described from the coastal region of Rodrigues Island, Mauritius, an isolated island in the south-western Indian Ocean. This new species can be assigned to an Indian faunal element, the recticauda species group, in the Indo-West Pacific recticauda species complex. It exhibits the closest relationship to T. (A.) recticauda recorded from the southern Red Sea and Arabian Gulf, rather than the closer distributed T. (A.) capensis, recorded from off South Africa.

A new species of Nemipterus (Pisces: Nemipteridae) from the Western Indian Ocean

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3630 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-197
Author(s):  
BARRY C. RUSSELL ◽  
DENIS TWEDDLE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Narrow Band ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Upper Lip ◽  
Lower Margin ◽  
Lower Lip ◽  
Posterior Nostril ◽  
A New Species

A new species of threadfin bream, Nemipterus flavomandibularis, from the Western Indian Ocean is described and figured. The new species appears most closely related to N. bipunctatus (Valenciennes), but differs principally in colour pattern: N. flavomandibularis is distinct from N. bipunctatus in having two yellow bands on the snout, the upper lip narrowly edged with yellow; and lower lip and chin beneath lip yellow, this colour extending as a narrow band posteriorly to lower margin of opercle. Also, in N. flavomandibularus the scale rows below the lateral line are more or less horizontal (versus distinctly ascending anteriorly in N. bipunctatus), and the maxillary reaches to between level of posterior nostril and anterior margin of eye (versus reaching to below the anterior half of the eye in N. bipunctatus).

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