A review of the blennioid fish family Tripterygiidae (Perciformes) in the Red Sea, with description of Enneapterygius qirmiz, and reinstatement of Enneapterygius altipinnis Clark, 1980
Author
Holleman, Wouter
Author
Bogorodsky, Sergey V.
text
Zootaxa
2012
3152
36
60
journal article
45708
10.5281/zenodo.279573
7359830e-3896-4dc8-91bc-1c15c4ee2993
1175-5326
279573
Genus
Norfolkia
Fowler, 1953
Norfolkia
Fowler, 1953
: 262
.
Type
species
N. lairdi
Fowler, 1952
=
Gillias squamiceps
McCulloch & Waite, 1916: 449
, by original designation.
Diagnosis.
Tripterygiid fishes with the following combination of characters: first dorsal fin with four spines; anal fin with two spines; lateral line discontinuous, with an anterior series of pored scales ending below the second dorsal fin, and a posterior series of notched scales from below the end of the anterior series to base of caudal fin; orbital and anterior nasal cirri present. Body and head below and behind eyes heavily scaled with ctenoid scales, except for a few cycloid scales on pectoral-fin bases, abdomen and around vent. Margins of lateral ethmoids ‘crenulate’ (see
Holleman 1991
); septal bone unossified to partially ossified; vomer with single row of coniform teeth, palatines without teeth.
Four species, one in the Red Sea.