[Short Note] Five New Records of Coastal Fishes from Western Taiwan
Pai-Lei Lin
Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 115, R.O.C.
Kwang-Tsao Shao
Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan 202, R.O.C.
Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 115, R.O.C.
Jeng-Ping Chen
Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 115, R.O.C.
This paper records five new fish species collected from western Taiwan coastal waters. They are: Chromis atbomaculatus Kamohara , 1960, Laiphognathus multimaculatus Smith, 1955, Plectranthias randalli Fourmanoir and Aivaton, 1980. Scenetsos gigas Chu and Wu, 1963, and Tridentiger barbatus (Gunther, 1861). Among them, Laiphognathus is the first genus recorded in Taiwan. Diagnos tic characters, distribution, remarks and color photos of each species are given in this paper.
Keywords
Fish fauna. Fish taxonomy
