Caligus dactylus Ho, Lin & Chang, 2007
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.210824 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6167093 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9B238789-FFE3-807C-768B-FCA4FACDFBBA |
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Plazi |
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Caligus dactylus Ho, Lin & Chang, 2007 |
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Caligus dactylus Ho, Lin & Chang, 2007
Ho et al. (2007) described C. dactylus as a new species based on material of both sexes collected from Dactyloptena peterseni (Nyström, 1887) landed in Taiwan. They made detailed comparisons between their new species and C. priacanthi Pillai, 1961 , but did not compare it with C. dactylopteni Uma Devi & Shyamasundari, 1981 described from material taken from another species of flying gurnard, Dactyloptena orientalis (Cuvier, 1829) , caught at Waltair on the coast of India ( Uma Devi & Shyamasundari, 1981). The descriptions match in every respect and there are no significant differences between these two species. We therefore propose to treat C. dactylus Ho, Lin & Chang, 2007 as a junior subjective synonym of C. dactylopteni Uma Devi & Shyamasundari, 1981 .
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