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    Dentex carpenteri, a new species of deepwater seabream from Western Australia (Pisces: Sparidae)

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    Iwatsuki, Y.
    Newman, Stephen
    Russell, B.
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Iwatsuki, Y. and Newman, S. and Russell, B. 2015. Dentex carpenteri, a new species of deepwater seabream from Western Australia (Pisces: Sparidae). Zootaxa. 3957 (1): pp. 109-119.
    Source Title
    Zootaxa
    DOI
    10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.9
    ISSN
    1175-5326
    School
    Department of Environment and Agriculture
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52749
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    Abstract

    Copyright © 2015 Magnolia Press.A new species of sparid fish, Dentex carpenteri, is described from nine type specimens collected off Ningaloo Reef near Exmouth, Western Australia. Four valid species of Dentex are currently known in the western Pacific, Dentex abei and D. hypselosomus in the Northern Hemisphere, and D. fourmanoiri and D. spariformis in the Southern Hemisphere. These four species comprise the "Dentex hypselosomus complex". Dentex carpenteri n. sp. is most similar to D. spariformis in overall body form, but differs from D. spariformis in having the posterior margin of the upper jaw not reaching or reaching slightly beyond a vertical at the anterior margin of eye; often with the greater part from the snout to the second infraorbital yellowish; deeper suborbital (9.7-10.9% SL); and a considerably deeper body (vs. posterior margin of upper jaw reaching clearly beyond anterior margin of eye; slight yellow region on snout; suborbital depth shallow (7.6-9.6% SL); and a less deep body in D. spariformis). The mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA genes (16S rRNA, 545 bp) of the above five species were analyzed using the Atlantic congener, Dentex macrophthalmus as an out-group, the results clearly indicating that D. carpenteri n. sp. is a valid and distinct species. A key to the "Dentex hypselosomus complex" is provided. The distribu-tional information available for the five species from the western Pacific, including western Australia and the nearby eastern Indian Ocean, are discussed, with the species considered to be allopatric.

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