Abstract
A new fossil serranid fish,Niphon macrocephalus, is described on the basis of a single specimen from the Late Pliocene Shinzato Formation, Shimajiri Group, Miyagi-shima, Okinawa, Japan. This species is distinguished from the Recent speciesNiphon spinosus Cuvier, 1828, in having the following four characters: (1) large head, (2) long frontals, (3) rounded posteroventral angle of maxilla, and (4) large 3rd hypural.
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Kon, T., Yoshino, T. Niphon macrocephalus sp. nov., a Late Pliocene serranid fish from Okinawa, Japan. Ichthyological Research 44, 35–42 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02672756
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