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. Type locality: Muthivaratu Paar,
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(following
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, pp. 253254 and
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, p. 122). Pectoral-fin rays 16 19 (usually 1718); midline of nape and side of nape naked; gill opening broad, extending forward usually to a vertical at posterior edge of eye; tip of tongue bilobed; translucent green to greenish brown, with indistinct brown to yellowish brown bars on body and bands on head; males with a black spot posteriorly on second dorsal fin.
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(following
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and
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). Small fish, less than
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in total length. Body elongate and compressed. Head depressed. Mouth terminal. Maxilla extending to below anterior margin of pupil. Upper and lower jaws with bands of small teeth, outer enlarged; inner lateral teeth in lower jaw enlarged, two pairs of them are canine-shaped. Tip of tongue bilobate. Vomer with a considerable protuberance. Gill opening extending to a vertical at posterior edge of eye.
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Scales: ctenoid, 2627 (2329 sensu
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in longitudinal series along the body, 67 transverse rows. Scales on side of body extending forward to above pectoral-fin base, side of breast usually scaled, mid predorsal and side of nape naked.
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(alive, based on original photos). Translucent green (
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) to greenish brown (
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), with indistinct irregular brown bars on body, except on belly and breast; a brown band on head from front of the eye to upper lip; eyes golden-brownish with a red ring around the eye pupil; males with a black spot posteriorly on the second dorsal fin.
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<emphasis id="C7E6EAB3FFD1FF9CFDA3F994FD51F949" box="[513,746,1647,1673]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="120">Pleurosicya bilobata</emphasis>
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is widely distributed from the Red Sea,
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(
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),
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and
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Islands (e.g., ROM 60051) in Western Indian Ocean, in the western Pacific east to
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(
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),
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(Ryukyu Islands), and
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. It generally lives on seagrass, at depths of
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).
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<emphasis id="C7E6EAB3FFD1FF9CFF65F904FE80F8D9" bold="true" box="[199,315,1791,1817]" pageId="7" pageNumber="120">Remarks.</emphasis>
Two photographed individuals match the description of
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<emphasis id="C7E6EAB3FFD1FF9CFC16F904FB96F8D9" box="[948,1069,1791,1817]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="120">P. bilobata</emphasis>
(
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. We herein report the finding of this species in the northern
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of Aqaba, a new record for the
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. This report is based solely on underwater photographs taken from Mashraba Bay at Dahab,
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of Aqaba (
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). Both individuals were found in the seagrass area at depths of
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8
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.
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