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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD55FFC7FF36F928C20DF94E" box="[151,363,1739,1761]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="55">Apterichtus australis</emphasis>
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BPBM 12306).
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD55FFC7FF36F908C2E1F8AE" box="[151,391,1771,1793]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="55">Apterichtus flavicaudus</emphasis>
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(non
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):
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(
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specimen).
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD55FFC7FF36F8CEC26CF8E9" bold="true" box="[151,266,1837,1862]" pageId="6" pageNumber="55">Diagnosis</emphasis>
. An elongate species with: tail 1.82.2, head 1820, and body depth
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total length; snout sharply pointed in lateral view, dorsal profile
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30o above lower jaw; 3 preopercular pores and 3 pores in supratemporal canal; teeth conical, uniserial on jaws and vomer; 510 vomerine teeth; body mostly pale in preservative, creamy dorsally and reddish-brown ventrally with light and dark head markings in life; and MVF 82164, total vertebrae 162167 (n=14).
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FF66FF74C391FF1F" bold="true" box="[199,247,151,176]" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">Size</emphasis>
. The largest specimen examined is
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, a female.
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FF66FF5FC23FFF7A" bold="true" box="[199,345,188,213]" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">Distribution</emphasis>
. Known from
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and the south Pacific island groups of Rapa,
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, Easter,
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, and possibly Lord Howe. It was captured over sand with associated rock and coral reef bottoms using ichthyocides and dredges between
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depth.
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FF66FEC4C25DFEEF" bold="true" box="[199,315,295,320]" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">Remarks.</emphasis>
This species is most similar to to
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FD14FECBC033FEEF" box="[693,853,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">A. flavicaudus</emphasis>
(
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and may ultimately be determined to be conspecific. At this time we are unable to synonymize them with confidence and we will continue to recognize them as valid.
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reported upon a large female specimen collected from the Northland,
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, as
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.
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The specimen, however, has 8 vomerine teeth. Additional information that we have accumulated concerning the vomerine dentition of
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FC95FE3FC0D3FE5B" box="[820,949,476,500]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">Apterichtus</emphasis>
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would result in its reidentification as
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.
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published a superb color photograph of the head and throat (the cephalic pores are obvious) of an individual protruding from the sand bottom off Sagami Bay,
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. It was identified as
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FABAFDABC27EFD2B" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">Apterichtus flavicaudus</emphasis>
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, however we feel that it is an
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FDCBFD8FC18DFD2B" box="[618,747,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">A. australis</emphasis>
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.
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recorded a specimen as
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from Sagami Bay which Hibino reidentified as
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; it has 164 total vertebrae, 84 preanal pores, and five vomerine teeth. Numerous subsequent photographs of
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were subsequently taken by divers between 12 and
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depth at Suruga and Sagami Bay (http://fishpix.kahaku.go.jp/fishimage-e/). We feel that those underwater photographs taken of
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are identifiable as
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TL). In addition to the specimens listed in
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is
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, 570 mm (
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prepreservation), from
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), station depth and date not recorded.
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