Symphysanodon

William D. Anderson, Jr. & Victor G. Springer, 2005, Review of the perciform fish genus Symphysanodon Bleeker (Symphysanodontidae), with descriptions of three new species, S. mona, S. parini, and S. rhax., Zootaxa 996, pp. 1-44 : 31

Symphysanodon sp. from the Comoros.

McCosker (1979) reported two partially digested specimens (7-8 cm) of Symphysanodon removed from a male coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae (CAS 33111, 118 cm), collected in the western Indian Ocean off Grande Comore Island in ca. 225 m (pers. comm., David Catania, 14 November 2002; see Figure 9). G. David Johnson, who identified the specimens, informed McCosker that they probably represent an undescribed species (McCosker, 1979). The gillrakers on the more intact specimen of Symphysanodon number 8 + 20 (Johnson, pers. comm., 28 October 2002). A total count of 28 gillrakers on the first arch is appreciably lower than that from the only other described specimen of Symphysanodon from the western Indian Ocean, the holotype of S. andersoni , which has a total count of 41-right, 42-left (Kotthaus, 1974). Johnson appears to be correct in his appraisal of the status of the specimen on which he made a gillraker count.