First record of the coloured righteye flounder, Poecilopsetta colorata (Teleostei: Poecilopsettidae) from the Sakalaves seamounts in the Mozambique Channel
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| Date | 2016-12 | ||||||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Author(s) | Chen Wei-Jen1, Chen Jhen-Nien1, Pernet Marie Eve Julie 2, Olu Karine2 |
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| Affiliation(s) | 1 : Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, No.1 Sec. 4 Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan. 2 : Département REM/EEP/Laboratoire Environnement Profond, IFREMER/Centre de Bretagne, Institut Carnot EDROME, 29280 Plouzané, France. |
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| Source | Marine Biodiversity Records (1755-2672) (Springer Nature), 2016-12 , Vol. 9 , N. 83 , P. 1-6 | ||||||||||||
| DOI | 10.1186/s41200-016-0084-8 | ||||||||||||
| Keyword(s) | Fishes, New record, Distribution, Western Indian Ocean, Mozambique Channel, Sakalaves seamounts, COI, PAMELA-MOZ01 cruise | ||||||||||||
| Abstract | Background: The coloured righteye flounder, Poecilopsetta colorata Günther, 1880 was previously known from the eastern Indian Ocean to the South China Sea and Indonesia. Here, a new record from the western Indian Ocean is reported. Results: The new record is based on a specimen collected on the Sakalaves seamounts at 375 m in depth in the Mozambique Channel during a recent oceanographic survey. Four other teleost fish species including an uncommon ophidiid species, Neobythites somaliaensis Nielsen, 1995 were also collected on the same seamounts. Conclusions: The presence of P. colorata in the Mozambique Channel suggests a broad and Indo-West Pacific wide distribution for this relatively rare deep-sea species. The sequence of the cytochrome oxidase subunit-I for the collected specimen is provided as a genetic reference for further DNA barcoding and systematic studies. |
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