<I>Protoblepharon mccoskeri</I>, a new flashlight fish from eastern Taiwan (Teleostei: Anomalopidae)

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A new flashlight fish of the genus Protoblepharon is described based on a large male specimen collected from eastern Taiwan, northwestern Pacific Ocean. It differs from the only congener, P. rosenblatti, in having the following characters: a smaller light organ with a larger cup; a deeper body; a strongly convex dorsal profile; a smaller and anterior placed pelvic fin, the appressed fin reaching to the midpoint between origins of pelvic and anal fins; a smaller pectoral fin, the apressed fin not reaching the lateral line; second dorsal-fin spine the longest; a shorter snout; a smaller eye; about 30 scale rows between first dorsal-fin base and lateral line; and more than 260 scale rows along the body axis.

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Ho, Hsuan-Ching and Johnson, G. David. 2012. "<a href="https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/19165"><I>Protoblepharon mccoskeri</I>, a new flashlight fish from eastern Taiwan (Teleostei: Anomalopidae)</a>." <em>Zootaxa</em>, (3479) 77–87.

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