Vol. 60, 2021
(update: 2021.08.18; 10.29)
A New Species of the Anchovy
Genus Stolephorus Lacepède
1803 from North Sumatra, Indonesia, and Redescriptions of Stolephorus pacificus Baldwin 1984
and Stolephorus teguhi
Kimura, Hori and Shibukawa 2009 (Teleostei: Clupeiformes: Engraulidae)
Harutaka
Hata1,* and Hiroyuki
Motomura2
doi:10.6620/ZS.2021.60-65
1Center
for Molecular Biodiversity Research, National Museum of Nature and
Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan.
*Correspondence: E-mail: k2795502@kadai.jp (Hata)
2The Kagoshima University Museum, 1-21-30 Korimoto,
Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan. E-mail: motomura@kaum.kagoshima-u.ac.jp
(Motomura)
Received 19 February 2021 / Accepted
28 July 2021
Communicated by Felipe Ottoni
Stolephorus leopardus sp. nov. is
described here, and Stolephorus
pacificus and Stolephorus
teguhi
are redescribed. Those three species are distinguished among congeners
by the presence of more than 30 gill rakers on the lower limb of the
first gill arch and a short maxilla, posteriorly just reaching the
anterior border of the preopercle. Stolephorus
pacificus and S. teguhi have
rarely been reported since they original ly described, and therefore
detailed morphological data and further diagnostic characters are
provided. Stolephorus leopardus,
in turn, is described based on four
specimens collected at Nias Island, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia.
The new species can be distinguished from S. pacificus and S. teguhi
by a shorter pectoral fin (15.6–16.3% of standard length vs. longer
than 16.5%), a longer snout (4.7–4.8% of standard length vs. <
4.5%), and an intermediate number of total gill rakers on the first
gill arch (63–68 in S. leopardus
vs. 57–63 in S. pacificus and
72–82 in S. teguhi). In
addition, the new
species differs from S. pacificus
in having a dark line on the dorsum (vs. line absent), numerous
melanophores laterally on the head (vs. a few melanophores on the snout
and mandible tips), and higher counts of branched anal-fin rays
[19–21(modally 19) vs. 17–19 (18)]. Stolephorus
leopardus is further distinguished from S. teguhi by a shorter anal-fin
base (22.4–22.5% of standard length vs. 22.7–25.3%).
Key words: Clupeomorpha, Indian Ocean,
Morphology, Southeast Asia, Taxonomy.
Citation: Hata H, Motomura H. 2021. A new
species of the anchovy genus Stolephorus
Lacepède 1803 from North Sumatra, Indonesia, and redescriptions of Stolephorus pacificus Baldwin 1984 and Stolephorus teguhi Kimura, Hori and
Shibukawa 2009 (Teleostei: Clupeiformes: Engraulidae). Zool Stud 60:65. doi:10.6620/ZS.2021.60-65.

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