New species of the genus Photonectes (Melanostomiidae) with blue luminous tissue on the body


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Abstract

Photonectes venetaenia sp. n., which differs from the closely related species by the pattern of blue luminous tissue on the body, the barbel with a short stem but a long filament, and other traits, was described from the equatorial waters of the western Pacific Ocean.

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A. M. Prokofiev

Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution (IEE); Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (IO)

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