Author: Kevin Mackay
Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Ecsenius niue, new species of blenniid fish, and new distribution records for other species in the Opsifrontalis species group

Victor Springer^1, Kevin Mackay^2

1 National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, United States; 2 NIWA, Private Bag 14-901, 6022, Wellington, New Zealand

Corresponding author(s): Victor Springer, Kevin Mackay

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Resource Citation

Springer, V.G. (2002) Ecsenius niue, new species of blenniid fish, and new distribution records for other species in the Opsifrontalis species group. Southwestern OBIS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand, 10 records, Online http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=niue_blennids released on May 31, 2015.

Abstract

Ecsenius niue is described from Niue Islands, SW Pacific. It is a member of the Opsidrontalis species group and is most similar to the Fijian endemic E. fijiensis, from which it differs in having six, as opposed to seven, vertical pairs of dark spots on the body posterior to a vertical from the base of the first segmented dorsal-fin ray, and in having the posteriormost pair of dark spots posteriorly elongate and attenuating onto the base of the caudal fin, as opposed to the spots being roughly cicular and discrete. It differs from the superficially similar E. tigris (islands of the Queensland Plateau) in lacking the three of four dark spots on the body ventral to those on the dorsal body contour below the spinous dorsal fin. New distribution records are given for E. axelrodi, E. bathi, and E. opsifrontalis.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

General description

Additional information: marine, harvested by iOBIS

Data published through GBIF: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=niue_blenniids

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Opsifrontalis species group
Taxonomic ranks
Genus: Ecsenius

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: SW Pacific Ocean
Coordinates: 20°1'8.4''S and 4°13'58.8''N Latitude; 167°46'22.8''W and 118°37'58.8''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Ecsenius niue, new species of blenniid fish, and new distribution records for other species in the Opsifrontalis species group
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/archive.do?r=niue_blenniids
Publication date of data: 2018-08-08
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2015-05-30
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Springer, V.G. (2002) Ecsenius niue, new species of blenniid fish, and new distribution records for other species in the Opsifrontalis species group. Zooxtaxa 72: 1-6