Bodianus rubrisos Gomon, 2006

Baranes, Avi, Fricke, Ronald, Golani, Daniel & Appelbaum-Golani, Brenda, 2016, Record of Bodianus rubrisos Gomon, 2006 from the northern Red Sea, previously misidentified as B. leucosticticus (non Bennett) or B. trilineatus (non Fowler) (Labridae), Cybium 40 (4), pp. 281-286 : 282-284

Bodianus rubrisos Gomon, 2006

( Fig. 1A, B ; Tab. I)

Bodianus rubrisos Gomon, 2006: 53 , fig. 34, pl. 5A-C

( Singaraja fish market, Bali, Indonesia). Holotype: NTM S.1168-001; Arafura Sea , Northern Territory, Australia; Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan.

Bodianus leucostictus [sic] (non Bennett, 1832): Baranes and Golani, 1993: 310 (Eilat, Israel). Khalaf et al., 1996: 404, pl. 3 (Aqaba, Jordan) [specimen lost]. Khalaf and Disi, 1997: 151 (Aqaba, Jordan).

Bodianus leucosticticus (non Bennett, 1832): Khalaf,

2004: 43 ( Jordan, Gulf of Aqaba).

Bodianus trilineatus (non Fowler 1934): Khalaf and

Zajonz, 2007: 430 ( Jordan, Gulf of Aqaba, deep water). Golani and Bogorodsky, 2010: 77 (Red Sea; in list of invalid records, based on misidentification of B. trilineatus ).

jaws slightly attenuate. Scaly basal sheath on dorsal and anal fins of moderate height, about 2½ scales in depth; distal outline of sheath gently curved though somewhat straighter posteriorly. Predorsal scales on dorsal midline of head reaching forward to in advance of anterior nostrils.

Posterior tip of dorsal fin rounded, reaching posterior edge of hypurals (caudal-fin base). Posterior tip of anal fin broadly point- ed, not reaching posterior edge of hypurals (caudal-fin base). Caudal fin truncate. Pectoral fin with upper rays considerably longer than lower rays; posterior edge of fin straight; fin broadly rounded ventrally.

Colour of fresh adult specimens ( Fig. 1A, B ). Body pink, white ventrally on head and belly, with numerous horizontal rows of small red to brown dots and four moderately narrow interrupted stripes of similar colour; dorsalmost stripe extending from upper margin of eye and ending below rear base of dorsal fin, the stripe obscured with black; second stripe in about three segments extending from posterior margin of eye and running nearly horizontally at level of anterior portion of lateral line, ending above caudal-fin mid-base; third stripe in about three segments on lateral midline of body on lateral midline of body, originating at ventroposterior margin of eye and running above pectoral-fin base, terminating at caudal-fin mid-base; fourth stripe, comprising a single segment posterior to pectoral-fin base below middle of side. A single longitudinal row of dots above dorsalmost stripe; two to four rows of dots between first and second stripe, two or three rows between second and third stripe, one row between midlateral and ventralmost, and one or two rows below ventralmost stripe. Opercle and nape with small red spots. Dorsal fin pink with narrow brown basal row of spots on membrane between spines and rays, and few red spots on several interspinous membranes in middle of fin. Anal fin white. Caudal fin distally red, upper margin dark grey. Pectoral fin yellow- ish with red blotch on fleshy base. Pelvic fin white.

Distribution

Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea ( Israel; Jordan); eastern Indian Ocean (Bali, Indonesia; Northern Territory, Australia); western Pacific ( Taiwan; Ryukyu Islands, Japan); two specimens recently collected from the Philippines (CAS 238383: L. Rocha, pers. comm.) ( Fig. 2 ). The species is known in depth ranges of approximately 35- 200 m. Underwater photographs of Bodianus rubrisos are reproduced in Okamura and Amaoka (1997: 469 as B. leucostictus ) from a depth of 35 m and in Nishiyama and Motomura (2012: 42) from a depth of 52 m.

Figures

Figure 1. – Bodianus rubrisos. A: HUJ 13667, male, 190.6 mm SL, Eilat, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, 200 m depth. Pho- tograph Arik Diamant; B: HUJ 20530, female, 172.3 mm SL, Eilat, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, 200-300 m depth. Photograph Daniel Golani.

Figure 2. – Geographical distribution of the subgenus Bodianus (Peneverreo). A: B. leucosticticus; B: B. paraleucos- ticticus; C: B. rubrisos; D: B. trilinea- tus.