taxonID	type	description	language	source
F105BA7088AE5644A3BA60241DF13A9C.taxon	description	English name: Hureau’s flounder Chinese name: 圓頭短額鮃 Figs 1, 2; Tables 1, 2.	en	Su, Yo, Cheng, Yu-Nung, Shyu, Jeng-Feng (2025): First record of Engyprosopon hureaui (Actinopterygii, Pleuronectiformes, Bothidae) from Taiwan, with a revised key to Engyprosopon in Taiwan. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 55: 93-99, DOI: 10.3897/aiep.55.146367
F105BA7088AE5644A3BA60241DF13A9C.taxon	description	Description of Taiwanese specimen. Meristic and morphometric data are provided in Tables 1, 2. Dorsal-fin rays 74. Anal-fin rays 51. Caudal-fin rays 3 + 11 + 3. Pectoral-fin rays 11 and 9 on ocular and blind sides, respectively. Pelvic-fin rays 6 on both ocular and blind sides. Gill rakers on first arch 0 + 6 = 6. Lateral-line scales ca. 38, not including 3 scales on caudal fin. Vertebrae 10 + 23 = 33. Body oval, greatest depth 1.7 in SL; its dorsal and ventral profiles convex and nearly symmetric. Head length 3.8 in SL; anterior profile of head rounded, and no distinct notch above snout. Snout length 4.6 in HL, distinctly shorter than both eyes. Rostral spine present on snout. Eyes sinistral, upper- and lower-eye diameter 3.3 and 3.5 in HL, respectively; anterior margin of both eyes at same vertical level. No orbital spines and ocular flaps. Interorbital space concave, its width 4.5 in HL. Two nostrils on ocular side, with anterior nostril forming tube, and situated on snout behind rostral spine; posterior nostril forming single pore, situated anterior to lower eye. Two nostrils on blind side, both minute, with anterior one forming short tube and posterior one forming pore; both situated below base of first dorsal-fin ray. Mouth oblique and small; ocular-side upper-jaw length 3.0 in HL; its anterior tip slightly posterior to lower-jaw tip when closed; its posterior tip reaching vertical through anterior margin of lower eye. Upper- and lower-jaw teeth uniserial on both ocular and blind sides. Gill rakers present on outer-three arches; those on first arch smooth, not serrated on inner sides; those on first and second arches laterally compressed, and subequal in size; those on third arch shorter than that of first and second; no rakers on upper limb of all four arches. Scales deciduous on both ocular and blind sides; those on ocular side ctenoid, with very short ctenii; those on blind side cycloid; no scales on snout and both jaws on ocular side. Dorsal-fin origin at horizontal through upper margin of lower eye; anterior rays not elongated; longest ray at point slightly posterior to vertical through midline of body. Anal-fin origin at vertical through ocular-side pectoral-fin origin; its shape nearly subsymmetrical to dorsal fin. Pectoral fin on ocular side not elongated, length 1.4 in HL; pectoral fin on blind side shorter than that of ocular side, length 1.9 in HL. Pelvic-fin origin on ocular side at tip of isthmus; pelvic-fin origin on blind side opposite to fifth ray of ocular-side pelvic fin. Tip of isthmus at vertical through middle of lower eye. Caudal fin rounded, slightly pointed, length 1.0 in HL. All rays simple except for middle 11 caudal-fin rays branched.	en	Su, Yo, Cheng, Yu-Nung, Shyu, Jeng-Feng (2025): First record of Engyprosopon hureaui (Actinopterygii, Pleuronectiformes, Bothidae) from Taiwan, with a revised key to Engyprosopon in Taiwan. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 55: 93-99, DOI: 10.3897/aiep.55.146367
F105BA7088AE5644A3BA60241DF13A9C.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Known from scattered localities in the Indo – West Pacific, including Gulf of Aqaba (type locality), Maldives (Regan 1908; Anderson et al. 1998), New Caledonia (Amaoka et al. 1993), Australia (Hoese and Bray 2006), and southern Japan (Amaoka and Kishimoto 1996; Motomura 2023). Inhabits at depths of 1 – 81 m (Amaoka et al. 1993). Our specimen represents the first record from Taiwan and fills the distribution gap of this species in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The specimen was collected within the silver-stripe round herring (Spratelloides gracilis) fishery, and other non-target species such as Parapriacanthus ransonneti Steindachner, 1870, Upeneus heterospinus Uiblein et Pavlov, 2019, and Parapercis pulchella Temminck et Schlegel, 1843, at depths not exceeding 30 m.	en	Su, Yo, Cheng, Yu-Nung, Shyu, Jeng-Feng (2025): First record of Engyprosopon hureaui (Actinopterygii, Pleuronectiformes, Bothidae) from Taiwan, with a revised key to Engyprosopon in Taiwan. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 55: 93-99, DOI: 10.3897/aiep.55.146367
