First Japanese Records of the Indo-Pacific Scorpionfish (Scorpaenidae) Scorpaenodes corallinus, with a Re-evaluation of Coronal Spines as a Diagnostic Character
First Northwest Pacific Record of the Apogonid Fish, Pristiapogon taeniopterus (Actinopteri: Kurtiformes) from Minamidaito Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
First Records of an Estuarine Goby Acentrogobius ocyurus (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) from Japan and the Sulu Sea in the Philippines
#Fish #NewRecords #SpeciesDiversity
Basking shark ontogeny needs a lot more study. Of particular interest to me is the beak-like snout shape in really young individuals, which so far has only been documented in a single paper. This is a juvenile caught in Japan in 1977.
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