A new species of the scorpionfish genus Maxillicosta from the Southeast Coast of Australia, with a redescription of M. whitleyi (Scorpaeniformes: Neosebastidae)

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 3, 2006, Pages 445-459

  Motomura, Hiroyuki ^a   Last, Peter R ^b   Gomon, Martin F ^c  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; FISH; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MORPHOMETRY; NEW SPECIES;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

MAXILLICOSTA; MAXILLICOSTA WHITLEYI; NEOSEBASTIDAE; SCORPAENIFORMES;

EID: 33749523903     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2006)2006[445:ANSOTS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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