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Reassignment of Melodichthys paxtoni to the genus Fiordichthys (Teleostei, Bythitidae) Jørgen G. NIELSEN (1), Werner SCHWARZHANS (2) & Peter Rask MØLLER (1) (1) Zoological
Museum, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen
Ø, DENMARK. Abstract.
- A comparison of the bythitids Fiordichthys slartibartfasti Paulin,
1995 and the two species of Melodichthys, paxtoni and hadrocephalus
both Nielsen & Cohen (1986), clearly shows that M. paxtoni
is much closer to F. slartibartfasti than to M. hadrocephalus.
Consequently, M. paxtoni is reassigned to Fiordichthys.
By examination of the copulatory organ it furthermore appeared that Fiordichthys
belongs to the brosmophycine tribe Brosmophycini rather than to Dinematichthyini
where it was originally referred. |
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