Lepidotrigla psolokerkos Gomon & Psomadakis 2018, new species

• Main Authors: Gomon, Martin F., Psomadakis, Peter N.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Scorpaeniformes; Triglidae; Lepidotrigla; Lepidotrigla psolokerkos; Fridtjof Nansen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5456894

Lepidotrigla psolokerkos new species Proposed vernacular: Skinny Gurnard (Figs 1C, 2E, F, 3D, 4, Table 1) Holotype. NMV A31698 -001 (128 mm SL) Myanmar, off Ayeyarwady Delta, 14°1.96′N, 96°9.21′E, 147–156 m, R / V DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN, stn 99, bottom trawl, 15 May 2015, collected by P.N. Psomadakis. Paratype : NMV A31699 -001 (142 mm SL) Myanmar, off Tanintharyi coast, 12°21.60′N, 96°51.47′E, 252–257 m, R / V DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN, stn 136, bottom trawl, 23 May 2015, collected by P.N. Psomadakis. Diagnosis. Lateral profile of body with straight taper to slender caudal peduncle; distinctive postorbital notch above and behind each eye but not extending across top of head as occipital groove; rostral process with broad medial notch edged with small spines becoming progressively longer to corner on each side when viewed from above; lateral line with 61 or 62 pored scales; about 15 or 16 scales below lateral line; first dorsal fin with 9 spines, second with 16 rays; anal fin with 15–17 rays; pectoral fins reaching about fourth anal fin ray. Upper two-thirds of caudal fin broadly grey distally, red below; inner surface of pectoral fin mostly black with red margin basally, ventrally and along narrow outer edge. Published as part of Gomon, Martin F. & Psomadakis, Peter N., 2018, Review of the Lepidotrigla gurnards (Teleostei: Scorpaeniformes: Triglidae) in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea off Myanmar with a description of a new species, pp. 66-77 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66 on pages 74-75, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5360658