Apogon affinis Poey

• Main Authors: Baldwin, Carole C., Brito, Balam J., Smith, David G., Weigt, Lee A., Escobar-Briones, Elva
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Perciformes; Apogonidae; Apogon; Apogon affinis; Austin; Baldwin; Elva; Escobar; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5659161; https://zenodo.org/record/5659161

Apogon affinis (Poey) Identification. Adult A. affinis can be distinguished from other Apogo n species by the combination of cycloid to weakly ctenoid scales, median predorsal scales present, pectoral-fin soft rays 11 or 12 (rarely 13), nine segmented anal-fin rays, and both jaws with a single series of small conical teeth interspersed with several enlarged caniniform teeth (Böhlke & Chaplin 1993, Gon 2002). Two adult specimens identified as A. affinis based on those features were analyzed genetically (Appendix 1). The specimens were taken in trawls and are not in good shape, and we selected a photograph of an adult not analyzed genetically in this study to illustrate the species (Fig. 20). No larvae or juveniles analyzed in this study genetically match A. affinis . : Published as part of Baldwin, Carole C., Brito, Balam J., Smith, David G., Weigt, Lee A. & Escobar-Briones, Elva, 2011, Identification of early life-history stages of Caribbean Apogon (Perciformes: Apogonidae) through DNA Barcoding, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3133 on page 19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.279426 : {"references": ["Bohlke, J. E. & Chaplin, C. C. G. (1993) Fishes of the Bahamas and Adjacent Tropical Waters. Second Edition. University of Texas Press, Austin, 771 pp.", "Gon, O. (2002) Apogonidae. In: Carpenter, K. (Ed.) The living marine resources of the Western Central North Atlantic. Vol. 3: Bony fishes part 2 (Opistognathidae to Molidae), sea turtles and marine mammals. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication No. 5, Rome, pp. 1386 - 1391."]}