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(
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,
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material.
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None.
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FFAC690AFF5AF983FE6AF9F7" bold="true" box="[151,424,1552,1579]" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">Comparative material.</emphasis>
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:
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:
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.
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In TL: preanal length 1.92.0, predorsal length 1314, head length 1011, body depth at anus 3137. In head length: snout length 5.16.7, eye diameter 7.612, upper-jaw length 2.93.6. Pores: LL 2, SO 3, IO 4, POM 6. Vertebrae: predorsal 56, preanal 7280, total 164167.
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Maximum size about
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, and at least as far east as
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; the closest record to the Red Sea is from the Arabian Gulf, Jana Island (Randall 1995). In shallow water on sand and rocky bottom, reported from depth less than
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from reef flat to depth of
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<emphasis id="1292EAB8FFAF6909FF0AFEDEFEF9FEBB" bold="true" box="[199,315,333,359]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Remarks.</emphasis>
The first record for the Red Sea is from a photograph taken at Jeddah, reproduced in
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. There seems to be little geographical variation; two specimens from the western Indian Ocean have 164166 vertebrae, two from the
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and
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have 164165, and one from
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has 167. No other differences are apparent. Unfortunately, this species could not be included in the present phylogeny (
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) as no specimens were collected during field survey carried out in this study nor were any COI sequence data available.
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