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A new species of the fish genus Grammonus (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) is described based on a ripe female, 98 mm in standard length (SL). It was caught at the bottom of a cave at a depth of 20 m under lightless conditions in Ie-shima Island, one of the Ryukyu Islands. A comparison to the seven described species of Grammonus shows the greatest similarity to the widely distributed G. robustus, but G. yunokawai n. sp. differs from it by having fewer vertebrae (41 vs. 44–47), a greater predorsal length (41.5 vs. 32.0–39.0% SL), higher posterior margin of maxilla (8.4 vs. 5.6–7.3% SL), and greater interorbital width (10.5 vs. 5.9–7.6% SL).
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Holotype of Grammonus yunokawai, KPM-NI 5258, 98 mm SL. Photographed by Kyo Yunokawa. (For color version of this figure, see electronic supplementary materials, Fig. S1
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Holotype of Grammonus yunokawai in life from a cave at 20 m, the northeast coast of Ie-shima Island. Photographed by Kyo Yunokawa. (For a color version of this figure, see electronic supplementary materials, Fig. S2)
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Nielsen, J. Grammonus yunokawai (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae), a new marine cavefish from the Ryukyu Islands. Ichthyol Res 54, 374–379 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-007-0412-4
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