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Diversity in the Dutch Caribbean

Michiel Oversteegen and Gerard van Buurt and Marion Haarsma

New species of jawfish

Sytske de Waart - 16 April 2017
Opistognathus schrieri
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W.F. Smith-Vaniz 2017 Descriptions of a new genus and two new species of Caribbean deep-water jawfishes (Teleostei: Opistognathidae)

A new species of jawfish, Opistognathus schrieri, is described based on two specimens collected in 2012 off Curaçao at a depth of about 152 m.

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Smith-Vaniz, W.F. 2017. Descriptions of a new genus and two new species of Caribbean deep-water jawfishes (Teleostei: Opistognathidae). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 26: 46-58. [link]