identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03D387BE2F69DC78FF02B0EFFC127DD6.text	03D387BE2F69DC78FF02B0EFFC127DD6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Emmelichthys marisrubri Fricke & Golani & Appelbaum-Golani 2014	<div><p>Emmelichthys marisrubri new species</p> <p>(Figs 1, 2)</p> <p>Material</p> <p>Holotype. - HUJF 5132 (74.4 mm SL), Eritrea, Red Sea, Adam Ben-Tuvia, trawl, 1 Dec. 1957.</p> <p>Paratypes. - HUJF 20199, 1 specimen (69.8 mm SL), and USNM 410584, 1 specimen (69.6 mm SL), same data as the holotype.</p> <p>Diagnosis</p> <p>A species of Emmelichthys with spinous and soft-rayed portions of dorsal fin separated by a gap containing 4 or 5 short isolated spines, which are protruding over the dorsal surface of the body; dorsal-fin spines XII or XIII, dorsal-fin soft rays 8; pectoral-fin rays 18-20; lateral-line scales 80-83; total gill rakers 26-31; depth of body 16.5-20.2% SL.</p> <p>Description</p> <p>Meristics and morphometrics are given in table I. Characters stated in the diagnosis are not repeated.</p> <p>Dorsal fin with XII (XIII) spines and 8 (8) soft rays; anterior 8 (8) spines connected by membrane, but penultimate 4 (5) with a short membrane behind each spine, not connected to following spines; membrane of last spine connected to first soft ray. Anal fin with III spines and 10 (11) soft rays. Last dorsal and anal rays not prolonged. Pectoral-fin rays 18 (18, 20), all but upper two and lowermost ray branched; length of uppermost ray three-fifths that of adjoining ray.</p> <p>Body and head, except for a narrow median dorsal region next to upper lip, completely covered with ctenoid scales; 7 (8, 9) scales from middle of spinous dorsal fin to lateral line; 80 (81, 83) pored lateral-line scales; 8 (8, 9) scales from dorsal-fin origin, and 16 (17, 18) from anal-fin origin, to lateral line; 5 (5, 6) oblique rows of scales on maxilla; 30 (30, 32) circum-peduncular scales. Soft dorsal and anal fins with scaly sheath at base, broadening on last few rays to nearly full length of rays; no scales on spinous dorsal fin or above basal sheath of soft dorsal and anal fins; pectoral fins scaled basally for 1/8 of the length; ventral side of pelvic fin rays with two rows of small scales; caudal fin with small scales on median basal fleshy part and proximally on rays.</p> <p>Body depth 5.0 (5.5-6.0), head length 3.5 (3.5, 3.6) in SL; body depth/width = 1.8 (1.5, 1.7); orbit 3.5 (4.1) in head length, greater than snout length and interorbital width. Nostrils small, subequal, about two nostril diameters apart; anterior nostril with a small flap on rear margin not reaching posterior nostril. Maxilla reaching or almost reaching vertical at front edge of orbit. Rear edge of opercle with 2 flat spines. No teeth on vomer or palatines; a few tiny teeth in one row at front of jaws, those of upper jaw extremely small or absent. Gill-rakers 10 + 21 (8 or 9 + 18 or 20); longest gill-raker shorter than longest gill filament.</p> <p>Pectoral fins reaching to vertical at tips of pelvic fins; pelvic fins short, reaching slightly less than 1/2 distance from their origin to anus; pelvic fin origin slightly posterior to base of pectorals, but anterior to dorsal-fin origin. Anal-fin origin anterior to vertical at first soft dorsal-fin ray. No fin rays produced. Anus well in advance of anal-fin origin; distance from anus to anal-fin origin about 1/2 orbit diameter.</p> <p>Colouration in preservative (see Fig. 1). Head and body uniformly brownish, eye dark gray.</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Southern Red Sea (Eritrea). The new species is known only from the type series.</p> <p>Etymology</p> <p>Mare (Latin) means Sea, ruber (Latin) means red; Mare ruber is the Latin name of the Red Sea. The name of the new species refers to the distribution in the Red Sea.</p> <p>Comparison</p> <p>Emmelichthys marisrubri differs from E. cyanescens and E. nitidus in its 8 dorsal-fin spines which are connected by a membrane (9 or 10 in E. cyanescens and E. nitidus), 4 or 5 free posterior dorsal-fin spines (2 or 3 in E. cyanescens and E. nitidus), 8 dorsal-fin soft rays (9 or 10 in E. cyanescens, 9-11 in E. nitidus), 18-20 pectoral-fin rays (22 in E. cyanescens), 26-31 total gill rakers (39-42 in E. cyanescens, 37-43 in E. nitidus), and 80-83 lateral-line scales (87-98 in E. nitidus, 100-105 in E. cyanescens); it is distinguished from E. elongatus by 4 or 5 free posterior dorsal-fin spines (3 in E. elongatus), 8 dorsal-fin soft rays (9 or 10 in E. elongatus), 26-31 total gill rakers (34-38 in E. elongatus), 80-83 lateral-line scales (61-68 in E. elongatus), and the orbit diameter 3.5-4.1 in head length (2.8-3.1 in E. elongatus); it differs from E. karnellai in its protruding posterior dorsal-fin spines (embedded in E. karnellai), 8 dorsal-fin soft rays (10 or 11 in E. karnellai), 18-20 pectoral-fin rays (21-23 in E. karnellai), 26-31 total gill rakers (37-43 in E. karnellai), head length 3.5-3.6 in SL (3.7-3.9 in E. karnellai), and the orbit diameter 3.5-4.1 in head length (2.7-3.2 in E. karnellai); from E. ruber in having 4 or 5 spines protruding (vestigial in E. ruber), in 8 dorsal-fin soft rays (9-11 in E. ruber), 26-31 total gill rakers (33-38 in E. ruber), 80-83 lateral-line scales (71-74 in E. ruber), head length 3.5-3.6 in SL (3.7-4.0 in E. ruber), and the orbit diameter 3.5-4.1 in head length (2.6-3.0 in E. ruber); and from E. struhsakeri in 4 or 5 free posterior dorsal-fin spines (1-3 in E. struhsakeri), 8 dorsal-fin soft rays (10-12 in E. struhsakeri), 26-31 total gill rakers (34-41 in E. struhsakeri), and 80-83 lateral-line scales (68- 76 in E. struhsakeri).</p> <p>The principal meristics and morphometrics of the species of Emmelichthys are compared in table II. A key to the species of Emmelichthys is presented below, updated from the key by Heemstra and Randall (1977).</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>This is the first record of the family Emmelichthyidae and the genus Emmelichthys from the Red Sea; the genus is so far unknown from most of the Indian Ocean (except South Africa). The habitat, and even the depth of collection of the new species remain unknown; the only known information is that the type series was trawled, probably above soft bottom.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D387BE2F69DC78FF02B0EFFC127DD6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Fricke, Ronald;Golani, Daniel;Appelbaum-Golani, Brenda	Fricke, Ronald, Golani, Daniel, Appelbaum-Golani, Brenda (2014): Emmelichthys marisrubri, a new rover from the southern Red Sea (Teleostei: Emmelichthyidae). Cybium 38 (2): 83-87, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2014-382-001, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26028/cybium/2014-382-001
