Abstract
A new species of sand whiting, Sillago (Sillago) caudicula, is described based on four specimens collected from Oman, the Indian Ocean. It is easily distinguishable from its four known members of the subgenus Sillago by having a smaller head (29.0–30.1% in standard length), 23–24 soft anal fin rays, 35–36 total vertebrae, body depth at the origin of the second dorsal fin slightly deeper than that at the origin of the first dorsal fin, first and second hypurals fused (in adult) or narrowly separated (in young), third and fourth hypurals fused, and 11 dusky midlateral spots on the body.
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Acknowledgments
We are grateful to A. Suzumoto and J. E. Randall (BPBM) for providing specimens of the new species and much information. We deeply thank T. Iwamoto (CAS) for a critical reading of the manuscript. We thank K. Amaoka, M. Yabe, and T. Kawai (Hokkaido University) for their advice. We express our sincere thanks to Y. Iwatsuki (MUFS) for valuable suggestions. We are grateful to T. Suzuki (Amagasaki-Kita Senior High School), M. McGrouther (AMS), H. Senou (KPM), J. Johnson (QM), and M.E. Anderson (SAIAB) for providing comparative materials, and J. Maclaine (BMNH) and P. Bartsch (ZMB) for providing photographs and X-ray photographs of the paratypes of Sillago intermedius and the syntypes of Sciaena malabarica, respectively.
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Kaga, T., Imamura, H. & Nakaya, K. A new sand whiting, Sillago (Sillago) caudicula, from Oman, the Indian Ocean (Perciformes: Sillaginidae). Ichthyol Res 57, 367–372 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-010-0169-z
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