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JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY
Volume 47, Issue 5-12, Pages 563-580Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2012.737483
Keywords
actinopterygian fish; endoparasites; lateral line system; Philichthyidae
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [228247]
- JSPS [21-09117]
- Ocean Exposition Commemorative Park Management Foundation, Okinawa
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This study describes four new species of Colobomatus Hesse, 1873 and redescribes Colobomatus collettei Cressey, 1977 and Colobomatus pupa Izawa, 1974 based on females collected from the sensory canals of seven finfish species from off the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan. Colobomatus pteroisi sp. nov. from Pterois volitans is unique in having a mid-lateral pair of cephalic processes; Colobomatus acanthuri sp. nov. from Acanthurus olivaceus possesses a short neck between the head and first pair of thoracic processes and tiny spinules and three claws apically on the cephalic, thoracic and genital processes; Colobomatus gymnocranii sp. nov. from Gymnocranius griseus has an anterior pair of papillose thoracic processes that are twice as long as the posterior pair of spinulose processes; Colobomatus absens sp. nov. from Pterocaesio digramma is unique in lacking a posterior pair of thoracic processes. New host and locality records for C.collettei and C.pupa are also reported herein.
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