Acanthoplesiops

Randall D. Mooi & Anthony C. Gill, 2004, Description of a new species of the fish genus Acanthoplesiops Regan (Teleostei: Plesiopidae: Acanthoclininae) from Tonga., Zootaxa 432, pp. 1-10 : 1

publication ID

z00432p001

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:232E7835-569F-4591-9DE6-A2B41BA4201D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6270676

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8DB010C3-BD41-20FA-5928-2D5E74F27BBB

treatment provided by

Thomas

scientific name

Acanthoplesiops
status

 

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Acanthoplesiops   ZBK is considered to have four valid species, all very small with no specimens larger than 27 mm SL. The genus is unique among acanthoclinines (and plesiopids) in having the following characters: 1-2 secondary opercular spines (Smith-Vaniz & Johnson 1990: 249, mistakenly reported that Fraudella   ZBK “has a series of prominent spines on the posterior margin of the opercle”; the serrations are actually on the preopercle); pectoral radial formula 3-0-1; supracleithral lateral-line canal absent; anterior/posterior ceratohyal suturing both medial and lateral; scales in mid-lateral series bilobed. Smith-Vaniz and Johnson (1990) noted a distributional puzzle presented by Acanthoplesiops   ZBK in that there is no Australian representative. Mooi and Gill (in press) addressed this by providing evidence that Notograptus   ZBK , an Australian endemic and previously a separate family, is sister to Acanthoplesiops   ZBK .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Perciformes

Family

Plesiopidae

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