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A new species of deepwater cardinal fish,Epigonus merleni, is described from a specimen found floating at the sea surface as a result of the eruption of Fernandina Volcano, Isla Fernandina, Galápagos Islands. It differs from all knownEpigonus in having the greatest number of lateral line scales (57) and the fewest gill rakers (17), as well as in several other characters.
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McCosker, J.E., Long, D.J. A new species of the deepwater cardinalfishEpigonus (Perciformes: Epigonidae) from the Galápagos Islands. Ichthyological Research 44, 125–129 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02678691
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