Parupeneus inayatae, Uiblein & Hoang & Alama & Causse & Chacate & Fahmi & Garibay & Matiku, 2018

Uiblein, Franz, Hoang, Tuan Anh, Alama, Ulysses, Causse, Romain, Chacate, Osvaldo E., Fahmi, Garibay, Soledad & Matiku, Patroba, 2018, A new species and new records of goatfishes of the genus Parupeneus (Mullidae) from the Indian Ocean, with updated occurrence information for P. jansenii in the Western Pacific, Cybium 42 (3), pp. 229-256 : 233-235

Parupeneus inayatae n. sp. Uiblein & Fahmi Inayat’s goatfish

( Figs 1 , 3 ; Tab. II)

Parupeneus sp. : White et al. (2013).

Holotype. – MZB 24565, 150 mm SL, Indonesia, EIO, Tanjung Luar , SE Lombok, fish market, 25-10-2008, collected by William T. White ( CSIRO).

Diagnosis

Pectoral fins 15–16 (left–right side); gill rakers 7 + 22 = 29 (both sides); lateral-line scales 27 (both sides); measurements in % SL: body depth at first dorsal-fin origin 30; body depth at anus 24; caudal-peduncle depth 11; maximum head depth 26; head depth through eye 22; interorbital length 8.8; head length 32; snout length 16; postorbital length 11; orbit length 7.2; upper jaw length 12; barbel length 24; caudal-peduncle length 24; caudal-fin length 29; anal-fin height 15; pelvic-fin length 24; pectoral-fin length 24; first dorsal-fin height 20; second dorsal-fin height 13; dorsal head margin in front of eyes concave; posterior maxilla margin evenly, symmetrically rounded; body and head mostly cinnabar red, body becoming lighter below lateral line from orange red to rose on underside; faint dusky spot on lateral line below interdorsal space with an orange blotch behind; four yellow stripes below lateral line, the two dorsal-most stripes following contour of lateral line; opercular and preopercular margins cinnabar red; scales below lateral line with contrasting cinnabar-red edges; second dorsal fin cinnabar red proximally with broad yellow distal margin; anal fin mostly yellow with three rose bands; caudal fin cinnabar red with innermost distal area orange red; barbels pale rose whitish; preserved fish pale brown with darker opercle.

Description

For meristic characters and size-adjusted morphometric characters in % SL see Diagnosis and Tab. II. Morphometric data as ratios of SL for HT: body moderately deep, its depth at first dorsal-fin origin 3.0; body depth at anal-fin origin 3.7; caudal peduncle depth 8.0, clearly larger than interorbital length (10); dorsal head margin above snout and in front of eyes concave shaped; maxilla posterior margin evenly, symmetrically rounded; maximum head depth 3.5, subequal to barbel length (3.8); head depth through eye 4.1; head length 2.8, subequal to maximum depth of body and caudal-fin length (3.1); snout length 5.8, clearly longer than postorbital length (8.4); orbit length 12.5; anal-fin height 6.1; second dorsal-fin height 6.8; pectoral-fin length 3.7, subequal to barbel length and pelvic-fin length (3.8).

Figures

Figure 1. – A-C: Holotype of Parupeneus inayatae n. sp., MZB 24565, 150 mm SL, SE Lombok, Indonesia; A: Fresh (side reversed; William T. White); B: Preserved left body side; C: Right body side (side reversed); D: P. fraserorum, SAIAB 81744, 133 mm SL, off Mozambique (Phil C. Heemstra); E: P. procerigena, SAIAB 84075, 114 mm SL, Nazareth Bank (Oddgeir Alvheim); F: P. heptacanthus HIFIRE VP 216-14, 154 mm, off Myanmar (Oddgeir Alvheim); G: P. nansen, SAIAB 86973, 141 mm SL, Zanzibar, Tanzania (Gavin Gouws and Monica Mwale); H: P. jansenii, HIFIRE F 58 448, 85 mm SL, Myanmar (unvouchered photograph; Oddgeir Alvheim); I: P. jansenii, UPVMI 2260, 110 mm SL, Iloilo, Central Philippines (Ulysses Alama). Scale bars = 20 mm.

Figure 3. – Standard length against four morphometric characters and total number of gill rakers against barbel length in Parupeneus inayatae n. sp. vs. P. heptacanthus and P. seychellensis. In P. heptacanthus the two size size groups and three populations are distinguished.