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Colletteichthys flavipinnis, a new toadfish species from Sri Lanka and India (Teleostei: Batrachoididae)

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Title Colletteichthys flavipinnis, a new toadfish species from Sri Lanka and India (Teleostei: Batrachoididae)
 
Creator Greenfield, David W
Bineesh, K K
Akhilesh, K V
 
Subject Pelagic Fishes
 
Description The third known species in the genus Colletteichthys is described from Sri Lanka and India. Colletteichthys flavipinnis
differs from C. dussumieri in having one instead of two or more tentacles above the eye. It differs from both C. occidentalis
and C. dussumieri in having yellow-orange fins, and from C. occidentalis in usually having 16 instead of 15 anal-fin rays
and 20 instead of 19 dorsal-fin rays, and in having a slightly smaller ( 1–2% SL) eye. Mitochondrial COI barcode
interspecific distance is 4.4% between C. flavippinis and C. dussumieri.
 
Publisher Magnolia Press
 
Date 2012
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9040/1/Colletteichthys_flavipinnis%2C_Greenfield_et_al._2012.pdf
Greenfield, David W and Bineesh, K K and Akhilesh, K V (2012) Colletteichthys flavipinnis, a new toadfish species from Sri Lanka and India (Teleostei: Batrachoididae). Zootaxa, 3437. pp. 24-31.