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SUBMITTER: Copus JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4319167 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biodiversity data journal 20150126 3
Neoniphonpencei, n. sp., is described from thirteen specimens, 132-197 mm standard length (SL) collected from mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) at Rarotonga, Cook Islands by divers using mixed-gas closed-circuit rebreathers. It differs from all other species of the genus in number of lateral line scales, scales above and below lateral line, elements of life color, and in COI and cytochrome b DNA sequences. Of the five other known species of Neoniphon, it is most similar to the Indo-Pacific N.au ...[more]