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Zootaxa 1227: 63–68 (2006) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA 1227 Copyright © 2006 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) Neobythitoides serratus, a new bathyal genus and species from the East China Sea (Teleostei, Ophidiidae) JØRGEN G. NIELSEN1 & YOSHIHIKO MACHIDA2 1Zoological Museum, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark 2Faculty of Science, Kochi University, Akebono, Kochi 780-8520, Japan Abstract A new genus and species of Ophidiidae is described on the basis of two specimens from the East China Sea. It is characterized by the following combination of characters: body slender, opercular spine strong, eye small (twice in snout), hind margin of preopercle serrated, two median basibranchial tooth patches with or without a pair of small circular tooth patches, sagitta large with undivided sulcus and 10–11 long rakers on anterior gill arch. It seems most similar to Neobythites, from which it can be separated by the small horizontal diameter of eye window 2.5–2.7 % SL vs. 3.7–6.0 % SL, the serrated hind margin of preopercle vs. preopercle with 0–3 spines and no serration, and a sagitta with undivided sulcus vs. divided sulcus. Key words: Ophidiiformes, Ophidiidae, Neobythitoides serratus gen. et sp. nov., bathyal, East China Sea Introduction During a revision of the Indo-Pacific species of the genus Neobythites (Nielsen 2002) two specimens from the East China Sea, catalogued in the Department of Biology, Kochi University, as Neobythites sp., could not be assigned to Neobythites or any other ophidiid genus. The revision was based on about 1000 specimens and revealed the existence of 42 species. A comparison between the present material and that from the revision and furthermore the eight species from the Atlantic (Nielsen 1999) shows that the two specimens represent a species different from any of the 50 known Neobythites-species, based on the differences mentioned below. Therefore, to keep the new species within the genus Neobythites a new generic diagnosis would be required, an act that would make the definition of Neobythites unusually broad compared to other neobythitine genera. A phylogenetic analysis of the Neobythitinae needs to be made, but a comparison of the new Accepted by A. Gill: 10 May 2006; published: 9 Jun. 2006 63.

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