First Records of Paloa villadolidi from Japan with a Redescription of Odonteleotris macrodon (Teleostei: Butidae)

• Published in: Species Diversity Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 165 - 175
• Main Authors: Kobayashi, Hirozumi, Nishigaki, Koji, Saeki, Toshifumi, Maeda, Ken
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 25.07.2023; Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology
• Subjects: Eleotris macrodon; goby; mangrove; Paloa polylepis; Ryukyu Archipelago; taxonomy

Seven specimens of Paloa villadolidi Roxas and Ablan, 1940, were collected from Okinawa and Ishigaki islands in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, and their morphologies are described herein. Although this species has been considered as a synonym of Odonteleotris macrodon (Bleeker, 1853) which is redesc...