Review of the steatiticus - species group of the cuskeel genus Neobythites (Ophidiidae) from the Indo-Pacific, with description of two new species Author Uiblein, Franz Author Nielsen, Jørgen G. text Zootaxa 2018 2018-02-26 4387 1 157 173 journal article 30651 10.11646/zootaxa.4387.1.7 a9edfada-4b67-44f9-8b4f-4ea85407ce13 1175-5326 1186736 45B4B1FD-5DC6-4D13-9470-B729013E2D8E Neobythites meteori Nielsen, 1995 ( Figures 1–2 , Tables 1 , 3 ) Neobythites meteori Nielsen,1995 : 7 , fig. 6a. Neobythites unimaculatus : Kotthaus 1979 : 13 , fig. 462. Holotype . ZMH 5621 (female, 102 mm SL), off southwestern Socotra Island , Yemen , NW Indian Ocean , 11°33.9' N , 52°54' E ; RV Meteor , st. 102, Agassiz trawl; 175–337 m depth; 20 Dec. 1964 . Diagnosis . Flat process on hind margin of preopercle; dorsal fin-rays 91; anal-fin rays 75; pectoral fin-rays 27; precaudal vertebrae 13; total vertebrae 53; pseudobranchial filaments 3; long gill rakers on anterior arch 6; head length 22.0 % SL; pelvic-fin length 11.0 % SL, pelvic fins not reaching anus; orbit length 4.1–4.9 % SL, 22.0 % head length, and and 2.0 times in upper-jaw length; longest gill filament 2.8 % SL and 13.0 % head length; ocellus spot placed above anus, the ocellus-spot distance being 39.0 % SL, and the spot covering 9 dorsal-fin rays; dorsal and anal fins not pigmented; no vertical bars on body; otolith length 4.6 % SL. Distribution . Off Sokotra Island, NW Indian Ocean, at 175–337 m depth. Remarks. In his review, Nielsen (1995: 8) included a second specimen (from off Lombok) as Neobythites meteori without designated it as paratype . This specimen is described as N. lombokensis n. sp . in the current paper. A photo of the freshly caught specimen, later to become the holotype of N. meteori , shows no dark margins or bands on dorsal and anal fins ( cf . Kotthaus 1979 ). Also, the otolith of the holotype of N. meteori turned out to be in bad condition allowing us only to measure otolith length and height.