This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Su, Yo, Ho, Hsuan-Ching (2024): A new species of the jawfish genus Opistognathus from Taiwan, northwestern Pacific Ocean (Perciformes, Opistognathidae). ZooKeys 1220: 165-174, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1220.123541

Abstract

A new species of jawfish genus Opistognathus is described based on a specimen collected from a beach in the Peng-hu Islands during a cold snap. The new species, Opistognathus cryos sp. nov., differs from its congeners in having a rigid upper jaw, 10–11 + 1 + 19–22 = 31–33 gill rakers, 55 scale rows in lateral series, 10 + 16 = 26 vertebrae, the terminus of the lateral line at the base of the fourth segmented dorsal-fin ray (15 th in total rays), the head, nape, dorsal-fin base above lateral line, throat, chest, and pectoral-fin base naked, dorsal fin with eight blotches along its entire base, body with five horizontal dark stripes, nape with two dark blotches in front of the dorsal-fin origin, and a caudal fin with five narrow, dark bands. A detailed description is provided and compared to its similar congeners.

GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/d9472aa9-c5c2-482b-bbbd-6cb337e2e9ca
Homepage: https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/summary/CBDCB3CCCBED5D3C971ABA79CB338801
Citation: Su Y, Ho H, pensoft (2024). A new species of the jawfish genus Opistognathus from Taiwan, northwestern Pacific Ocean (Perciformes, Opistognathidae). ZooKeys. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/6fuh83 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-02-12.