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SUBMITTER: M Copus J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6477842 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
M Copus Joshua J L Pyle Richard R D Greene Brian B E Randall John J
ZooKeys 20190404
A new species of the butterflyfish genus <i>Prognathodes</i> (Chaetodontidae) is described from two specimens collected at a depth of 116 m off Ngemelis Island, Palau. <i>Prognathodesgeminus</i> <b>sp. n.</b> is similar to <i>P.basabei</i> Pyle & Kosaki, 2016 from the Hawaiian archipelago, and <i>P.guezei</i> (Maugé & Bauchot, 1976) from the western Indian Ocean, but differs from these species in the number of soft dorsal-fin rays, size of head, body width, and body depth. There are also subtle ...[more]