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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FEF7D8A594E93CCA" bold="true" box="[361,693,151,178]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">Neomerinthe pallidimacula</emphasis>
(
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diagnosis
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FF09D8ED97973C81" box="[151,459,223,249]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">Neomerinthe pallidimacula</emphasis>
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as
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, on the basis of a single specimen (USNM 98889, 76.0 mm SL) from Uanivan Island,
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, which remains the only known confirmed example of the species. Although
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has been distinguished from all other Indo-Pacific congeners by the lack of lateral lacrimal and second preopercular spines (
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Motomura
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), a few specimens lacking lateral lacrimal and second preopercular spines have been observed in
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,
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FB25D94293183DF1" box="[1211,1348,367,393]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">N. kaufmani</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FA1DD94297553DD5" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">N. megalepis</emphasis>
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(see
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; this study). However,
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clearly differs from the latter two species by having 45 scale rows in longitudinal series (vs.
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), 12 lower scale rows in the lateral line (vs. 8 or
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), and cycloid scales between the isthmus and posterior to the pelvic-fins (vs. ctenoid scales).
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is similar to
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in sharing the following morphological characteristics; numerous cycloid scales between isthmus and posterior to pelvic fins, 45 scale rows in longitudinal series (vs.
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), 12 scale rows below the lateral line (vs. 9–12), and 20 pectoral-fin rays (vs. 18–20). However, the former clearly differs from
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in having a longer upper jaw, length 25.0% of SL (vs. 19.1–23.6% of SL in
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, based on
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) (
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), greater maxilla depth, 8.2% of SL (vs. 5.7–7.6% of SL) (
<figureCitation id="329C82F8FC16FFB0FCFBDA8195E33EB5" box="[869,959,691,717]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="7.[152,255,1689,1713]" captionTargetBox="[199,1389,926,1661]" captionTargetId="figure-366@7.[187,1401,921,1666]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="FIGURE 4. Morphological relationships of species of Neomerinthe. A, upper-jaw length; B, maxilla depth; C, 11th dorsal-fin spine length; and D, caudal peduncle depth (all as % of standard length) to standard length (mm) in N. bucephalus (circles) and N. pallidimacula (star)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10843072" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10843072/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">Fig. 4B</figureCitation>
), shorter eleventh dorsal-fin spine, length 5.7% of SL (vs. 6.8–10.8% of SL) (
<figureCitation id="329C82F8FC16FFB0FDB0DAE594DB3E89" box="[558,647,727,753]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="7.[152,255,1689,1713]" captionTargetBox="[199,1389,926,1661]" captionTargetId="figure-366@7.[187,1401,921,1666]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="FIGURE 4. Morphological relationships of species of Neomerinthe. A, upper-jaw length; B, maxilla depth; C, 11th dorsal-fin spine length; and D, caudal peduncle depth (all as % of standard length) to standard length (mm) in N. bucephalus (circles) and N. pallidimacula (star)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10843072" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10843072/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">Fig. 4C</figureCitation>
), and 22 pored lateral-line scales (vs. 23–25). In addition, the caudal-peduncle depth of
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FEF5DACE94753F6D" box="[363,553,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">N. pallidimacula</emphasis>
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is 11.3 % of SL, tending to be greater than that of
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FBEFDACE934F3F6D" box="[1137,1299,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">N. bucephalus</emphasis>
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(8.6–11.6% of SL) (
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). Although
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FE55DB1294DB3F41" box="[459,647,799,825]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">N. pallidimacula</emphasis>
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could be assessed only on the basis of a single specimen, comparisons were made with many examples of
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FDAFDB76948F3F25" box="[561,723,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">N. bucephalus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The study concluded that
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FB95DB7692963F25" box="[1035,1226,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">N. pallidimacula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a valid species, morphologically distinct from
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FE70DB5A94D33FF9" box="[494,655,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">N. bucephalus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FF06DEAB97443ACA" bold="true" box="[152,280,1689,1714]" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">FIGURE 4.</emphasis>
Morphological relationships of species of
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.
<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FCC4DEAB952E3AC9" bold="true" box="[858,882,1689,1713]" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">A,</emphasis>
upper-jaw length;
<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FBACDEA892153ACA" bold="true" box="[1074,1097,1690,1714]" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">B,</emphasis>
maxilla depth;
<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FB76DEAB935D3AC9" bold="true" box="[1256,1281,1689,1713]" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">C,</emphasis>
11th dorsal-fin spine length; and
<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FED4DE8C973E3AAE" bold="true" box="[330,354,1726,1750]" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">D,</emphasis>
caudal peduncle depth (all as % of standard length) to standard length (mm) in
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FB19DE8C93443AAE" box="[1159,1304,1726,1750]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">N. bucephalus</emphasis>
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(
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) and
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FF09DED0971E3A82" box="[151,322,1762,1786]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">N. pallidimacula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FECEDED0972B3A81" box="[336,375,1762,1785]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">star</emphasis>
).
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Although
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Motomura
<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FE22DF7797AD3B26" box="[444,497,1860,1886]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">et al</emphasis>
. (2016)
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included in the diagnosis of
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FC3ADF7792383B26" box="[932,1124,1860,1886]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">N. pallidimacula</emphasis>
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, three white stripes on the lateral surface of the trunk, such a characteristic has been noted in some other long-term preserved specimens of the genus
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FE97DFBE97C63BDE" box="[265,410,1932,1958]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">Neomerinthe</emphasis>
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[e.g., USNM 202511,
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SL,
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of
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FC23DFBF921A3BDE" box="[957,1094,1932,1958]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">N. kaufmani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see
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: fig. 9a); USNM 51266,
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SL,
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of
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FD60DF82959B3BB2" box="[766,967,1968,1994]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">Scorpaena izensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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&amp; Starks, 1904
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) and
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<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FA95DF8393353BB2" box="[1291,1385,1969,1994]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">N. ignea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see Matsumoto
<emphasis id="98D3426FFC16FFB0FE80DFE797133B96" box="[286,335,2004,2030]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="142">et al</emphasis>
. 2023: fig. 2d)], and it is clearly not diagnostic of the former species.
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