Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopteri
Order: Perciformes
Family: Howellidae Ogilby, 1899
Bathysphyraenops radhae Rajeev et al. 2022
Collection: Indian Ocean. 00°49.5240 S,67°56.3850 E; 04° 32.2880 S, 60°48.1880 E.
Voucher No.: IO/SS/FIS/00693, IO/SS/FIS/00695
Description: A species of Bathysphyraenops with snout rounded, not laterally compressed; dorsal contour more steeply raised in front than above the eye; ventral margin of lachrymal convex; hind margin of preopercle with one to two flat spines and a concavity above its angle; 23 pseudobranchial filaments in 56 mm SL adult, and spinules on scales around pectoral fin strongly reduced or absent.
Biological association: None
Remarks: NA
Distribution: Indian Ocean
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Identified by: Rajeev R
Publication: Rajakrishnan, R., Rajeeshkumar, M., Cubelio, S. S., & Prokofiev, A. M. (2022). A new species of Bathysphyraenops from the Indian Ocean with comments on the genus (Teleostei: Acropomatiformes: Howellidae). Journal of Fish Biology, 101(6), 1522–1529. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15229
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