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A taxonomic review of seven-spined Polynemus species recognizes two species as valid: P. hornadayi Myers, 1936, currently known only from western Sarawak, Kalimantan, Malaysia, and P. paradiseus Linnaeus, 1758, distributed from India to Thailand and regarded as a senior synonym of P. aureus Hamilton, 1822, P. longifilis Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1829, P. risua Hamilton, 1822, and P. toposui Hamilton, 1822. Polynemus hornadayi differs from P. paradiseus in having a strongly protruded occipital profile (vs. nearly straight in the latter), lower counts of anal fin soft rays (mode 11 vs. 12) and gill rakers (26 vs. 32 or 33), higher counts of pectoral fin rays (18 vs. 17), scales above and below the lateral line (11 and 18 vs. 7 and 11, respectively), and pored lateral line scales (94 vs. 70), the fifth pectoral filament longest (vs. sixth), the fourth pectoral filament longer (extending well beyond the posterior central margin of the caudal fin vs. not reaching posterior central margin), a longer pectoral fin ray (posterior tip of pectoral fin reaching to midpoint of anal fin base vs. not reaching), a deeper maxilla posterior margin (mean 5% of SL vs. 4% of SL), and a well-developed swimbladder (vs. absent).
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Received: November 7, 2001 / Revised: May 15, 2002 / Accepted: June 3, 2002
Acknowledgments We are greatly appreciative to the following for specimen loans: B. Brown and X. Freilich (AMNH), M.H. Sabaj, M. Littmann, and D. Dagit (ANSP), J. Maclaine (BMNH), K.E. Hartel (MCZ), S.L. Jewett, L. Palmer, S.J. Raredon, S. Smith, and J.T. Williams (USNM), and P.K.L. Ng and K.K.P. Lim (ZRC). We are most grateful to C. Weber (MHNG) and M. Gudo (SMF) for their provision of type data and photographs of Polynemus longifilis, and to P. Pruvost (MNHN) and S.L. Jewett, L. Palmer, S.J. Raredon, and S. Smith (USNM) for opportunities to examine the types of P. longifilis and P. hornadayi, respectively. We thank M.N. Venugopal and A. Chakraborty (Department of Fishery Biology, College of Fisheries, India), B.V. Seshagiri Rao (Department of Zoology, D.N.R. College, India), and A. Choochern (Bangkok, Thailand) for their assistance in fieldwork at various times. We thank Y. Motomura (Hiratsuka, Japan) for her assistance and G.S. Hardy (Ngunguru, New Zealand), who read the initial manuscript and offered helpful comments. This study was supported in part by a grant awarded to the first author by Research Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists (Tokyo, Japan).
Correspondence to:Hiroyuki Motomura
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Motomura, H., Kullander, S., Yoshino, T. et al. Review of seven-spined Polynemus species (Perciformes: Polynemidae) with designation of a neotype for Polynemus paradiseus Linnaeus, 1758. Ichthyol Res 49, 307–317 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s102280200046
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