• DOI:10.1007/s10228-014-0394-y
• Corpus ID: 254163269

Evoxymetopon moricheni, a new cutlassfish from the northern Red Sea (Teleostei: Trichiuridae)

@article{Fricke2014EvoxymetoponMA,
  title={Evoxymetopon moricheni, a new cutlassfish from the northern Red Sea (Teleostei: Trichiuridae)},
  author={Ronald Fricke and Daniel Golani and Brenda Appelbaum-Golani},
  journal={Ichthyological Research},
  year={2014},
  volume={61},
  pages={293 - 297}
}

• R. Fricke, D. Golani, B. Appelbaum-Golani
• Published 14 March 2014
• Biology
• Ichthyological Research

Evoxymetopon moricheni n. sp. is described from the northern Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, on the basis of a single specimen. It is characterised within the genus by a convex upper head profile; the posterior confluence of the frontal ridges slightly elevated at the nape, resulting in the presence of a slight sagittal crest; eye 5.2 times in head length; the lower hind margin of opercle slightly pointed in its lower half; the pelvic fins reduced to a scale-like structure with two soft rays on the posterior process of the basipterygium, its origin below the eighth dorsal-fin element; the first anal spine single, oval, scale like, and originating a short distance behind the vent (opposite the 34th dorsal-fin soft ray), anterior anal-fin soft rays minute and embedded, barely penetrating the skin and not visible externally, while the posterior fin supporting the rays enlarged and visible externally; approximately 17 anal-fin rays externally visible; approximately 83 dorsal-fin elements, with first spine not elongate, shorter than second; 12 pectoral-fin rays (ii + 6 + iv), with shorter anterior (fourth ray shortest) and longer posterior rays extending above the lateral line; 10 upper and 13 lower gill rakers of the first gill arch; head and body silver white, with a blackish margin anteriorly on snout and head, continuing along the anterior half of the dorsal-fin base. The new finding represents a new record of the genus from the Red Sea.