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A review of the Indo-Pacific bonefishes of the Albula argentea complex, with a description of a new species

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In this statement about numbers of nominal and valid species, the bonefish Albula argentea (Forster in Bloch and Schneider 1801) of the western and South Pacific, previously regarded as an unavailable name, is a senior synonym of Albula forsteri Valenciennes (an unnecessary replacement name for A. argentea) and A. neoguinaica Valenciennes. It is easily distinguished from the wide-ranging A. glossodonta (Forsskål 1775) by its more pointed lower jaw and higher vertebral and lateral-line scale counts. It is most similar to the Indian Ocean A. oligolepis, described here as a new species, and the endemic Hawaiian A. virgata Jordan and Jordan, resurrected from synonymy. Albula argentea differs from its two related species by higher counts of pored lateral-line scales and vertebrae. It has 68–74 (mode 70) lateral-line scales vs. 61–65 (63) for A. oligolepis and 63–67 (65) for A. virgata, and 71–74 (73) vertebrae vs. 64–66 (65) for A. oligolepis and 65–68 (67) for A. virgata. Albula virgata differs further from A. oligolepis in having the pelvic fin tip reaching beyond the anus (vs. short of or just reaching anus) and higher numbers of scale rows above the lateral line 9–10 (9) vs. 7½–8 (8) for A. oligolepis.

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Acknowledgments

We greatly appreciate specimen loans from M. Sabaj (ANSP), J. Maclaine (BMNH), A. Suzumoto (BPBM), D. Catania and T. Iwamoto (CAS), I. Nakamura and T. Nakabo (FAKU), M.A. Rogers and K. Swagel (FMNH), S. Kimura (FRLM), G. Duhamel and P. Pruvost (MNHN), K. Matsuura and G. Shinohara (MSNT), S.L. Jewett and J.T. Williams (USNM), M.E. Anderson, P.C. Heemstra, and V. Mthombeni (SAIAB), M. Bougaardt and L.J.V. Compagno (SAM), J.G. Nielsen and M. Tammes (ZMUC), and K.K.P. Lim (ZRC). We thank G.S. Hardy, Ngunguru, New Zealand, who read the initial manuscript and offered helpful comments. Furthermore, we thank W.N. Eschmeyer (CAS), D.G. Smith (USNM), and J.L. Earle (BPBM) for their valuable comments and suggestions regarding the nomenclatural problem of Albula argentea and color information of A. virgata. Special thanks to M.E. Anderson (SAIAB) for gifting a color transparency of Albula oligolepis sp. nov. This study was financially supported in part by the Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant from the Japan Science Society awarded to the first author and by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (Nos. 1364069 and 16570079) to the second author.

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  1. University of Miyazaki, The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University, 1-1 Gakuen-kibanadai-nishi, Miyazaki, 889-2192, Japan

    Koichi Hidaka

  2. Division of Fisheries Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, 1-1 Gakuen-kibanadai-nishi, Miyazaki, 889-2192, Japan

    Yukio Iwatsuki

  3. Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St, Honolulu, HI, 96817-2704, USA

    John E. Randall

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Hidaka, K., Iwatsuki, Y. & Randall, J.E. A review of the Indo-Pacific bonefishes of the Albula argentea complex, with a description of a new species. Ichthyol Res 55, 53–64 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-007-0010-5

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