5bdda925-9237-40ef-ab40-a39a226352e4 https://ipt.taibif.tw/resource?r=102-2621-b-291-002-102wbe1100014 Hsuan-ching Ho National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium Associate Researcher

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melissaliu0520@gmail.com distributor 2022-07-21 eng The Halieutichthys aculeatus species complex is reviewed. Members of this clade are distinguished by the presence of tubercles on the tail and a reticulate dorsal pigmentation pattern. Three species are recognized, including two species new to science. A neotype is chosen for H. aculeatus. Halieutichthys bispinosus n. sp. is characterized by having relatively strong tubercles on the dorsal surface, a row of tubercles almost always present dorsal to the orbit, both sphenotic tubercles well developed and sharp, trifid principal tubercles on the disk margin with anterior spinelet enlarged, dense arrangement of tubercles on the tail and a comparatively large adult body size. Halieutichthys intermedius n. sp. can be distinguished from congeners by having both sphenotic tubercles strongly reduced, the tubercles almost always absent dorsal to the orbit, principal tubercles on the disk margin uniformly short and blunt tubercles, with all spinelets generally reduced. Occurrence Biogeography Museum collection GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. The geographic range where all specimens were sampled are mainly from Gulf of Mexico and western coast of US, western central Atlantic Ocean, with one except of a juvenile specimen collected from Caribbean Sea. -98.965 -57.656 44.965 10.833 family Ogcocephalidae Batfishes The data was published formally. notPlanned Hsuan-ching Ho National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium Associate Researcher

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ogcoho@gmail.com Ho Hsuan-ching author Ministry of Science and Technology 2019-05-30T11:34:02.655+08:00 dataset Ho H (2022): Records of Halieutichthys aculeatus complex (Ogcocephalidae, Lophiiformes). v1.12. Ministry of Science and Techonology. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.taibif.tw/resource?r=102-2621-b-291-002-102wbe1100014&v=1.12 H.-C. Ho, P. Chakrabarty, J. S. Sparks. Review of the Halieutichthys aculeatus species complex (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of two new species. Journal of Fish Biology 77(2010)841-869. Not applicable http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/collection/index.asp California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Not applicable http://sci-web-001.amnh.org/db/emuwebamnh/Query.php American Museum of Natural History, New York Not applicable https://collections-zoology.fieldmuseum.org/ Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Not applicable https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/SpecimenSearch.cfm Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge Not applicable https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/fishes/ Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C. Not applicable https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/ University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville Not applicable https://www.lsu.edu/mns/collections/ichthyology.php Louisiana Museum of Natural History, Baton Rouge alcohol 5bdda925-9237-40ef-ab40-a39a226352e4/v1.12.xml