Siphamia stenotes Gon & Allen 2012, new species

• Main Authors: Gon, Ofer, Allen, Gerald R.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Perciformes; Apogonidae; Siphamia; Siphamia stenotes; Stripe; Triton; Triton Bay
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5252460; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5252460

Siphamia stenotes new species Figures 28f–g, 32; Table 13 Holotype: NCIP 6315, 23.9 mm, female, bay off northwestern side of Selat Iris (03° 54.544’S, 134° 09.679’E), Triton Bay, West Papua, Indonesia, 11.5–12 m, clove oil and hand net, G. Allen and M. Erdmann, 24 April 2006. Paratypes: BPBM 40999, 5: 12.8–17.4 mm, collected with holotype; NCIP 6316, 6: 14.0– 19.7 mm, collected with holotype; SAIAB 96147, 6: 12.3–18.1 mm, collected with holotype; USNM 396981, 7: 12.0– 18.3 mm, Tanjung Soakasekai (03° 57.629’S, 134° 21.283’E), Kayu Merah Bay, West Papua, Indonesia, 45 m, clove oil and hand net, G. Allen and M. Erdmann, 26 April 2006; WAM P.32799-001, 6: 17.2–22.4 mm, collected with holotype. Diagnosis: Dorsal rays VII+I,9; anal rays II,8 (rarely II,7); pectoral rays usually 13, occasionally 14; tubed lateral-line scales 9–11; median predorsal scales about 4 (missing or incomplete on all specimens); total gill rakers 2+10 (rarely 2+9), all rakers developed. Body ovate, its depth 2.6–3.1 in SL, and body width 2.0– 2.7 in the depth; eye diameter 2.6–3.1 in head length; first dorsal spine 2.8–4.2 in second spine; second dorsal spine 3.5–4.0, spine of second dorsal fin 3.4–4.0, and second anal spine 3.4–5.7, all in head length; pectoral-fin length 4.5–5.0 and pelvic-fin length 4.5–4.8 in SL; caudal-peduncle length 1.1–1.7 in distance between pelvic spine insertion and anal-fin origin. Preopercular ridge smooth, the margin with 7–15 fine serrations concentrated around angle. Vomer with narrow band of small teeth forming v-shape; palatines with narrow band of small teeth. Scales large, thin and deciduous, cycloid on anterior half of body and weakly spinoid on posterior half. Tip of light organ on each side of tongue bound by membrane. Colour in life (from underwater photos by G.R. Allen): silvery head and translucent body revealing silvery peritoneum; brown stripe, slightly narrower than pupil diameter, from snout to anterior iris and continuing behind eye along middle of side to caudal-fin base, tapering in width on ...