RESEARCH ARTICLE
Sueviota pyrios, a new
species of coral-reef dwarfgoby from the Red Sea (Teleostei:
Gobiidae)
David W. Greenfield & John
E. Randall
Abstract
Sueviota pyrios is
described as a new gobiid fish from a single male
specimen, 16.5 mm SL, collected from the Gulf of Aqaba
in the Red Sea. It is distinct from other described
species of the genus in being bright orange-red in
life, in having two vertically aligned, well-separated,
reddish clusters of chromatophores on the pectoral-fin
base (each with a blackish mark in the center of the
cluster), the first two spines of the dorsal fin filamentous,
8 dorsal-fin soft rays, 8 anal-fin soft rays, 16 pectoral-fin
rays (all unbranched), the fifth pelvic-fin ray with
two branches, no pelvic frenum, 25 lateral scale rows,
and the following cephalic sensory-canal pores: POP,
NA, AITO, PITO, SOT, and AOT. This is the first record
of the genus Sueviota from the Red Sea.
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CITATION:
Greenfield, D.W. & Randall,
J.E. (2017) Sueviota pyrios, a new species
of coral-reef dwarfgoby from the Red Sea (Teleostei:
Gobiidae). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation,
25, 8-13.
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.268651
publication date: 6 February
2017
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