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Synonymy of two species of the genus Platycephalus and validity of Platycephalus westraliae (Teleostei: Platycephalidae)

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The type specimens of platycephalid Platycephalus endrachtensis Quoy and Gaimard 1825 are regarded as being conspecific with Platycephalus arenarius Ramsay and Ogilby 1886, so the latter becomes a junior synonym. This species is characterized as having a caudal fin with four or more longitudinal dark bands and lacking a yellow blotch. It is also found that Platycephalus westraliae (Whitley 1938), which had been considered to be a junior synonym of Platycephalus bassensis Cuvier 1829, is a valid species. Specimens that recently had been mistakenly identified as “P. endrachtensis,” having the caudal fin with three or four longitudinal dark bands and a yellow blotch on the upper lobe, should be referred to P. westraliae.

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Acknowledgments

I express sincere thanks to L.W. Knapp (USNM) for his critical reading of draft manuscript. I also sincerely thank Michel Lamboeuf (FAO-FIMF) and K. Carpenter (Old Dominion University) for giving me permission to use two drawings in Fig. 1. I am deeply indebted to M. McGrouther (AMS) and P. Pruvost (MNHN) and other staff of the fish section of the museums for providing various support when I visited the museums. My special thanks also go to H.K. Larson (NTM) for making materials available. Agnès Le Port (University of Auckland) kindly translated French literature into English.

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Imamura, H. Synonymy of two species of the genus Platycephalus and validity of Platycephalus westraliae (Teleostei: Platycephalidae). Ichthyol Res 55, 399–406 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-008-0046-1

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