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<mods:title id="220658F25E88EA727AEC7EB2EC695FCA">Redescription of Nothobranchiuslucius and description of a new species from Mafia Island, eastern Tanzania (Cyprinodontiformes, Aplocheilidae)</mods:title>
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Fig. 3, Table 2
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<pageBreakToken id="347BA779455B380E76991391AF094188" pageId="3" pageNumber="38" start="start">Holotype</pageBreakToken>
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MRAC A7-02-P-33, 1 male, 52.9 SL; Tanzania: Mafia Island, approximately 3 km south of Kirongwe,
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, about 15 m asl; B. Watters et al., 31 May 2002.
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<paragraph id="87A9DA93D1405E5F2C67B191BC4B280A" pageId="3" pageNumber="38">Paratypes.</paragraph>
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MRAC A7-02-P-34, 1 female, 46.4 mm SL; collected with holotype. MRAC A702-P-38-44, 4 males, 43.7-55.2 mm SL (1 C&amp;S), 3 females, 44.0-49.8 mm SL; Tanzania: Mafia Island, approximately 0.5 km east of Kirongwe,
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, about 10 m asl; same collectors and date as holotype.
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<paragraph id="65A8C9D464F1467E71923628948AC07F" pageId="3" pageNumber="38">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="41F0CA15249E8B14EE9BCE1831BA5085" pageId="3" pageNumber="38">
<taxonomicName id="F4047BB497CB376D661151FAD50B957D" family="Nothobranchiidae" genus="Nothobranchius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nothobranchius insularis" order="Cyprinodontiformes" pageId="3" pageNumber="38" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="insularis">Nothobranchius insularis</taxonomicName>
is distinguished from all species of the
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group, except
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, in possessing snout pointed in lateral view, jaws moderately long (vs. snout blunt to weakly pointed, jaws short); caudal fin, in males, with broad dark grey to black band on the posterior margin (vs. narrow); presence, in females, of dark dots over the whole flank (dark dots when present restricted to the posterior portion of the flank). The new species differs from
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by having inner premaxillary teeth smaller than teeth of the outer premaxillary tooth row (vs. larger); caudal fin subtruncate in males (vs. rounded); in females, flank dark dots are vertically elongated and often arranged in oblique rows (vs. dots rounded, arranged in horizontal rows); unpaired fins, in females, with dark grey dots when present restricted to their basal portion (extending over most fin); caudal, pectoral and pelvic fins shorter (caudal fin length 26.9-29.6% SL in males and 22.8-27.4% SL in females of
<taxonomicName id="CD06D2F7442FF3EE44DC15BEBB2397B1" family="Nothobranchiidae" genus="Nothobranchius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nothobranchius insularis" order="Cyprinodontiformes" pageId="3" pageNumber="38" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="insularis">Nothobranchius insularis</taxonomicName>
, vs. 31.3-34.9% SL in males and 30.3-32.9% SL in females of
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; pectoral-fin length 17.1-21.8% SL in males and 14.2-19.3% SL in females, vs. 22.2-24.5% SL and 20.2-24.6% SL, respectively; pelvic-fin length 8.6-11.0% SL in males and 9.6-11.0% SL in females, vs. 11.6-13.1% SL and 11.5-13.0% SL, respectively); and three neuromasts in the posterior section of the anterior supraorbital series (vs. two).
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<paragraph id="4D27503004DA1167065092127544F388" pageId="3" pageNumber="38">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="92DCEA1D4265DEB9B284A576B611A45A" pageId="3" pageNumber="38">Morphometric data appear in Table 2. Dorsal and ventral profiles slightly convex from snout to posterior end of dorsal and anal-fin bases, about straight on caudal peduncle. Body relatively slender, compressed. Greatest body depth at vertical just in front of pelvic-fin base. Jaws slightly elongated, snout pointed in lateral view. Jaw teeth canine, numerous, irregularly arranged, outer teeth greater than internal teeth. Gill-rakers of first branchial arch 4-5 + 14-15. Six branchiostegal rays.</paragraph>
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Table 2. Morphometric data of
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<td id="0544591F6D06FC5549FF019D6DE123AF" colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="38" rowspan="1">Percent of standard length</td>
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<td id="98C1A460E39B83A05833EF532214B75B" colspan="1" pageId="3" pageNumber="38" rowspan="1">Percent of head length</td>
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<paragraph id="22B3B3B9AD195C78F34097FBCDD89504" pageId="3" pageNumber="38">Dorsal and anal fins broad in males, extremity rounded, with short filamentous rays along distal margin, dorsal fin slightly longer than anal fin; in females, dorsal fin rounded, anal fin sub-triangular and slightly longer than dorsal fin. Caudal fin subtruncate. Pectoral fin rounded, posterior extremity between pelvic-fin base and anus. Pelvic fin small, tip reaching between anus and urogenital papilla; pelvic-fin bases medially in close proximity. Dorsal-fin origin on vertical between base of first and third anal-fin rays. Dorsal-fin rays 15-16; anal-fin rays 16-18; caudal-fin rays 29-30; pectoral-fin rays 19; pelvic-fin rays 6. Minute contact organs on first and second pectoral-fin rays in males; rows of papillate contact organs along distal portion of middle dorsal-fin rays and two thirds of most rays of anal fin in males.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="0974B3111C8445C5D652EF349AA72D28" pageId="3" pageNumber="38">Scales small, cycloid; body and head entirely scaled, except ventral surface of head. Minute filamentous contact organs along posterior margin of scales on middle portion of flank and latero-ventral portion of head in males. Body squamation extending over anterior 40% of caudal-fin base; no scales on dorsal and anal-fin bases. Frontal squamation irregularly arranged in two longitudinal rows. Longitudinal series of scales 31-32; transverse series of scales 9-10; scale rows around caudal peduncle 16.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="5E1ED7863E92C5651005B441FAD83C89" pageId="3" pageNumber="38">Anterior supraorbital series of neuromasts arranged in two separate sections, each placed in shallow depression, the anterior section with two neuromasts, the posterior one with three; sometimes minute neuromast between depressions. Posterior supraorbital series with four neuromasts placed in shallow depression. Infraorbital series with 18-21 neuromasts, pre-opercular series 14-18, mandibular 17-18. One neuromast per scale of lateral line.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="25304DA8C5F7602B076E8D9F816F0910" pageId="3" pageNumber="38">Colouration in alcohol</paragraph>
<paragraph id="94D0C8EAACBFA7EB09C5046E245F482C" lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="39" pageId="3" pageNumber="38">
(Fig. 3). Males. Flank, dorsum and head light brown, darker on posterior portion of scales of dorsal portion of flank, dorsum and opercle; venter pinkish grey; branchiostegal membrane dark grey. Dorsal and anal fins hyaline with transverse series of grey spots, almost inconspicuous in anal fin. Caudal fin pale yellow with dark grey to black stripe along whole fin
<pageBreakToken id="35B35E90C09975BA1A4DCE2AA2F77341" pageId="4" pageNumber="39" start="start">margin</pageBreakToken>
, broader on posterior margin. Pectoral fin hyaline, pelvic fin greyish hyaline with black tip.
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Figure 3.
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sp. n.: A. MRAC A7-02-P-33, holotype, male, 52.9 mm SL; Tanzania: 3 km S of Kirongwe, Mafia Island; B. MRAC A7-02-P-38-44, paratype, male, 48.3 mm SL; Tanzania: 0.5 km S of Kirongwe, Mafia Island; C. MRAC A7-02-P-38-44, paratype, female, 49.8 mm SL; Tanzania: 0.5 km S of Kirongwe, Mafia Island.
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<paragraph id="DDBDE95B11114CE39AB375DA152D3241" pageId="4" pageNumber="39">Females. Flank and dorsum pale brown, side of head and venter pale yellow; vertically elongated dark grey to black dots irregularly arranged in oblique rows on whole flank; sometimes few pale grey dots on opercular region. Unpaired fins hyaline; elongated grey dots on basal portion of dorsal fin; anal and caudal fin often without dark marks, sometimes with almost inconspicuous pale grey dots on basal portion. Paired fins hyaline.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="AE2DFF13D4FEE55F037CEDE38783CA73" pageId="5" pageNumber="40">
<pageBreakToken id="D6DDE20B97BA3704A2526400C0CADDDE" pageId="5" pageNumber="40" start="start">Etymology</pageBreakToken>
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From the Latin
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, meaning pertaining to an island and referring to the occurrence of the new species on Mafia Island.
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<paragraph id="8AEC2509A4A717E771C63DE2361E695D" pageId="5" pageNumber="40">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="A2D94132CD2FA5E787EDEDC8FEC6C183" pageId="5" pageNumber="40">
<taxonomicName id="F3FE680D5DB39F6D664310F3B4E59E9E" family="Nothobranchiidae" genus="Nothobranchius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nothobranchius insularis" order="Cyprinodontiformes" pageId="5" pageNumber="40" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="insularis">Nothobranchius insularis</taxonomicName>
is known from two close localities in the northern part of the Mafia Island, Tanzania, at about 10-15 m asl (Fig. 2).
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