Robust armoured-gurnard

description

Peristedion (Panichthys) picturatum lingi Whitley, 1933: 97 (type locality: Sydney). Satyrichthys welchi: Kamohara, 1952: 8 (Japan); Ochiai & Yatou, 1984: 335, pl. 302 A (southern Japan to Philippines); Richards, 1999: 2363 (name listed from western central Pacific); Richards, 2000: 607 (name listed from South China Sea); Yamada, 2002: 613 (southern Japan and West Pacific); Paxton et al., 2006: 930 (name listed from Australia and tropical West Pacific); Kawai, 2008: 26 (name listed only). Satyrichthys lingi: Paxton et al., 1989: 457 (name listed from Australia); Paxton et al., 2006: 930 (name listed from Australia); Kawai, 2008: 26 (name listed only).

Revision of the peristediid genus Satyrichthys (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) with the description of a new species, S. milleri sp. nov.

description

S. welchi S. lingi holotype non-type holotype Acknowledgments I sincerely thank William J. Richards (National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center / NOAA) for his critical reading of a draft manuscript and valuable suggestions. I am grateful to Naomi Delventhal (University of Manitoba) for her English correction of early manuscript. I thank following individuals for loans or gifts of specimens, or providing access to their collections: Mark McGrouther (AMS), James Maclaine (BMNH), Hiromitsu Endo (BSKU), Yoshiaki Kai (FAKU), Mamoru Yabe, Hisashi Imamura and Kazuhiro Nakaya (Hokkaido University), Patrice Pruvost, Romain Causse, Zora Gabsi and Claude Ferrara (MNHN), Hsuan-Ching Ho (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan), Keiichi Matsuura and Gento Shinohara (NSMT), Kiyotaka Hatooka (OMNH), Ukkrit Satapoomin and Charatsee Aungtonya (PMBC), Martien J. P. van Oijen and Ronald de Ruiter (RMNH), Koichi Hoshino and Makoto Okamoto (SNFR), TetsuoYoshino (formerly Ryukyu University: URM), Jeffrey T. Williams, Jerry Finan and Jeffrey M. Clayton (USNM), and Krishnamoorthy Venkataraman (ZSI). I also thank Fumihito Tashiro and Yuki Nagano (Hokkaido University), Yohko Takata

Revision of the peristediid genus Satyrichthys (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) with the description of a new species, S. milleri sp. nov.

diagnosis

Diagnosis. A species of Satyrichthys with four lip and three chin barbels; many dusky spots on spinous dorsal fin; antrose spines on upper lateral bony plates of caudal peduncle; parietal bones of each side equal in size on midline.

Revision of the peristediid genus Satyrichthys (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) with the description of a new species, S. milleri sp. nov.

discussion

Remarks. Herre (1925) described Satyrichthys welchi from the Philippines based on one specimen. Unfortunately, the holotype of this species was destroyed during World War II (Yatou & Okamura 1985). Peristedion (Panichthys) picturatum lingi was described by Whitley (1933) on the basis of the holotype and one paratype from Australian waters. Later, many ichthyologists included this species in Satyrichthys as S. lingi (e. g., Paxton et al. 1989, 2006; Kawai 2008). A comparison of the holotype of S. lingi and the original description with other material of S. welchi reveals similar meristics and relative measurements (Table 8). As the original description of S. welchi is also similar to the holotype of S. lingi. I conclude that S. lingi is a junior synonym of S. welchi. Del Cerro and Lloris (1997) synonymized S. welchi with S. moluccensis without evidence. Satyrichthys welchi is easily distinguished from S. moluccensis by its four lip barbels, three chin barbels, and many dusky spots on the spinous dorsal fin [vs. three lip barbels, zero (rarely two) chin barbels and no spots in S. moluccensis). One paratype (AMS IA. 5810: Fig. 13) of Whitley’s species is identified as Peristedion lior

Revision of the peristediid genus Satyrichthys (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) with the description of a new species, S. milleri sp. nov.