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Sebastiscus vibrantus, a new species of rockfish (Sebastidae) from Indonesia and Taiwan

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A new species of rockfish, Sebastiscus vibrantus, is described on the basis of 24 specimens collected from Bali, Indonesia and Taiwan. Although closely resembling Sebastiscus tertius (Barsukov and Chen 1978) in overall body appearance, and having usually 19 pectoral-fin rays and black margined white blotches scattered on the lateral body surface, the new species has thicker unbranched pectoral-fin rays, a greater pectoral-fin base length, the third dorsal-fin soft ray usually longest, the anterior margin of the scaled suborbital area not reaching level the anterior margin of the orbit, and weakly developed nuchal spines.

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We are especially grateful to A. Graham (CSIRO), H.-C. Ho and K. Koeda (NMMB), G. Shinohara and M. Nakae (NSMT), K. Wibowo (Research Center for Oceanography, LIPI, Indonesia), and R. K Hadiaty (MZB) for specimen loans and their assistance in collecting specimens. We also appreciate M. Matsunuma (Kindai University, Japan) for examining type specimens of S. tertius, H. Hata, Y. Haraguchi and other volunteers and students of KAUM for their kind assistance, and G. Hardy (Ngunguru, New Zealand) for reading the manuscript and providing help with English. This study was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP19770067, JP26241027, JP24370041, JP23580259, and JP26450265; the JSPS Core-to-Core Program: B Asia-Africa Science Platforms; the “Biological Properties of Biodiversity Hotspots in Japan” project of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan; “Establishment of Research and Education Network on Biodiversity and Its Conservation in the Satsunan Islands” project of Kagoshima University adopted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan; and the “Island Research” project of Kagoshima University.

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  1. Graduate School of Fisheries, Kagoshima University, 4-50-20 Shimoarata, Kagoshima, 890-0056, Japan

    Satoshi Morishita

  2. Laboratory of Marine Biology and Biodiversity (Systematic Ichthyology), Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hakodate, Hokkaido, 041-8611, Japan

    Toshio Kawai

  3. The Kagoshima University Museum, 1-21-30 Korimoto, Kagoshima, 890-0065, Japan

    Hiroyuki Motomura

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Morishita, S., Kawai, T. & Motomura, H. Sebastiscus vibrantus, a new species of rockfish (Sebastidae) from Indonesia and Taiwan. Ichthyol Res 65, 423–432 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-018-0632-9

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