Coastal Fishes of Sao Tome and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (Eastern Atlantic Ocean) - an update.
Peter Wirtz
Carlos Eduardo L. Ferreira
Sergio R. Floeter
Ronald Fricke
Joao Luiz Gasparini
Tomio Iwamoto
Luiz Rocha
Claudio L. S. Sampaio
Ulrich K. Schliewen
Zootaxa
2007
1523
1
48
6N24H
Bath, 1994
Bath
1994
Actinopterygii
Blenniidae
Hypleurochilus
Animalia
Perciformes
Chordata
species
pseudoaequipinnis
SMNS 24224 (1 specimen, Bom Bom Islet) and SMNS 24131 (1 specimen, Bom Bom Islet). UFES 141 (1 specimen, Santana Islet). Afonso et al. (1999) recorded this species as Hypleurochilus aequipinnis Guenther, 1861, based on an underwater observation by PW. H. aequipinnisand H. pseudoaequipinnisare sister species in the eastern and the western Atlantic, respectively. Surprisingly, the three SMNS and UFES specimens from Sao Tomeand Principecorrespond to the western Atlantic pseudoaequipinnisand not the eastern Atlantic aequipinnisin the shape of the supraorbital tentacles and the colour of the head, as described by Bath (1994). Comparative material: H. aequipinnis: SMNS 16660, Senegal; H. pseudaequipinnis: SMNS 19384, Netherlands Antilles.