Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 45(4): 407-410, doi: 10.3750/AIP2015.45.4.09
First record of the sawspine dragonet, Diplogrammus infulatus Smith, 1963 (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Callionymidae), from La Réunion, south-western Indian Ocean
R. Fricke, C. Cadet, T. MulochauCorresponding author: R. Fricke © R. Fricke, C. Cadet, T. Mulochau. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Fricke R, Cadet C, Mulochau T (2015) First record of the sawspine dragonet, Diplogrammus infulatus Smith, 1963 (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Callionymidae), from La Réunion, south-western Indian Ocean. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 45(4): 407-410. https://doi.org/10.3750/AIP2015.45.4.09 |  |
Abstract
The sawspine dragonet, Diplogrammus infulatus Smith, 1963, is recorded for the first time from La Réunion, south-western Indian Ocean; based on a specimen photographed at L’Ermitage les Bains, Saint Gilles les Bains on 12 February 2008. The specimen is described and compared with its congeners reported from the western Indian Ocean.
Keywords
marine fish, new record, distribution, range extension, morphology, systematics