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New species Amblyeleotris (Gobiidae) from Phan Thiet Bay (South China Sea, Vietnam)

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A new species Amblyeleotris memnonia sp. n. from the South China Sea is described. By the high number of rays in the second dorsal and anal fins, the new species is close to A. gymnocephala and A. cephalotaenia, but it differs from them and all other species by the uniform dark color of the body.

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  1. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Leninski 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia

    A. M. Prokofiev

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Original Russian Text © A.M. Prokofiev, 2016, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2016, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 368–370.

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Prokofiev, A.M. New species Amblyeleotris (Gobiidae) from Phan Thiet Bay (South China Sea, Vietnam). J. Ichthyol. 56, 467–469 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945216030152

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