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New species of the genus Photonectes (Melanostomiidae) with blue luminous tissue on the body

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Photonectes venetaenia sp. n., which differs from the closely related species by the pattern of blue luminous tissue on the body, the barbel with a short stem but a long filament, and other traits, was described from the equatorial waters of the western Pacific Ocean.

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  1. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution (IEE), Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Leninskii 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia

    A. M. Prokofiev

  2. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (IO), Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Nakhimovskii 36, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    A. M. Prokofiev

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Original Russian Text © A.M. Prokofiev, 2016, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2016, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 487–489.

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Prokofiev, A.M. New species of the genus Photonectes (Melanostomiidae) with blue luminous tissue on the body. J. Ichthyol. 56, 613–615 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003294521604010X

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