Fish Otoliths from the Cabarruyan Piacenzian-Gelasian fauna found in the Philippines
Author
Van Hinsbergh, Victor W. M.
Author
Helwerda, Renate A.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-03-04
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4563.3.1
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Polyipnus
aff.
indicus
(Figure 20)
1995
Polyipnus indicus
Smale
MJ, Watson G, Hecht T, p. 30, plate 11, fig. 11–12
Material:
2 specimens
in total. Anda1 (1) RGM 962124;
Tiep2 (1)
RGM 962125
.
Two specimens—including one well preserved otolith except for its rostral extension—have a relatively high OL:OH body ratio (= 0.79) as compared to the other specimens. The posterior rim is smooth, also in the better preserved specimen. The high OL:OH body ratio is also observed in the extant species
Polyipnus indicus
(depicted in Smale etal., 1995) and the Chattian species
Polyipnus weitzmani
(Steurbaut, 1984)
. The spine at the onset of the (broken) rostrum is pointed in our specimens, while that depicted by Smale etal. (1995) is larger and blunt. This latter publication also shows shape variation between two specimens of
P. indicus
; both contain a smooth posterior rim. More material should be available for drawing more definitive conclusions. On basis of the available material, we consider these specimens closer to
P. indicus
rather than
P. aquavitus
.