Lagocephalus suezensis Clark & Gohar, 1953

Bogorodsky, Sergey V., Alpermann, Tilman J., Mal, Ahmad O. & Gabr, Mohamed H., 2014, Survey of demersal fishes from southern Saudi Arabia, with five new records for the Red Sea, Zootaxa 3852 (4), pp. 401-437 : 434

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3852.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:350DD9AE-B559-4DE6-94C6-EDCB90F4EAB4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6125416

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B37C1D6E-FF89-487C-AEF2-FD57FDBF9AA1

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scientific name

Lagocephalus suezensis Clark & Gohar, 1953
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Lagocephalus suezensis Clark & Gohar, 1953 View in CoL

Material examined. SMF 35112 (1: 8.5 cm); SMF 35113 (1: 7.8 cm); KAUMM 155 (1: 8.4 cm).

Remarks. Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) is a similar species characterized by the presence of small Black blotchs dorsally and more rays in dorsal (11–13), anal (9–12), and pectoral fins (16–18) ( Randall 1995). Trawled specimens have dorsal-fin rays 10 or 11 (10: 2, 11: 1), anal-fin rays 8 or 9 (8: 1; 9: 2), and pectoral-fin rays 16, and brown blotches and spots dorsally.

SMF

Forschungsinstitut und Natur-Museum Senckenberg

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