A new species of the cardinalfish genus Apogon (Teleostei, Apogonidae) from the southern Red Sea and Indian Ocean with comments on phylogenetic relationships within the Apogonini Author Gon, Ofer South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa. Author Bogorodsky, Sergey V. Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt a. M., Germany. Station of Naturalists, Omsk, Russia. https: // www. researchgate. net / profile / Sergey _ Bogorodsky / research Author Mal, Ahmad O. Marine Biology Department, Faculty of Marine Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Author Alpermann, Tilman J. 0000-0002-8723-4576 Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt a. M., Germany. Station of Naturalists, Omsk, Russia. https: // www. researchgate. net / profile / Sergey _ Bogorodsky / research & tilman. alpermann @ senckenberg. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8723 - 4576 tilman.alpermann@senckenberg.de text Zootaxa 2020 2020-12-23 4896 4 485 504 journal article 9205 10.11646/zootaxa.4896.4.2 ed2e6df3-f7cc-4cf2-8791-a1ca50015952 1175-5326 4387643 6A7889D6-1F8D-439C-982C-726C7BDADF3C

TABLE 3. Comparison of proportional measurements (as percent of the standard length) and counts of type specimens of the Apogon deetsie and A. unicolor species groups with 12 pectoral-fin rays

	Apogon fugax	Apogon caudicinctus	Apogon deetsie	Apogon dianthus *	Apogon rubrifuscus **
Measurements
*Data in parentheses are for non-types from Greenfield (2007) and Gon (unpublished data) **Data transformed from Greenfield & Randall (2004)
Standard length (mm)	42.5–59.65	46.8–54.2	36.5–38.0	47.2 (40.2–47.4)	101.5
Head length (mm)	17.9–25.0	18.55–21.25	13.9–15.85	17.5
%SL
Body depth	30.7–34.1	34.7–36.2	33.2–34.5	32.7 (23.2–35.2)	34.5
Body width	17.9–19.6	19.1–20.2	16.7–17.05	19.3 (18.0–22.0)	15.7
Head length	41.9–45.4	38.15–39.6	36.8–40.0	37.1 (36.3–40.4)	41.7
Snout length	7.5–8.9	7.7–10.15	8.2–9.0	8.05 (5.0–8.1)	8.0
Eye diameter	11.4–13.4	11.6–13.25	12.1–13.7	11.2 (10.9–13.5)	14.4
Interorbital width	7.4–7.9	6.7–8.0	6.6–8.2	6.5 (6.0–8.0)	7.6
Upper-jaw length	22.3–23.0	20.0–21.6	21.2–22.5	21.3 (19.5–21.7)	20.8
Lower-jaw length	25.5–26.0	22.2–23.5	23.6–24.4	23.9
Maxillary width	5.6–6.0	5.4–5.6	5.7–5.9	5.9
First dorsal-fin spine	8.6–10.5	2.8–6.1	6.7–7.2	6.4 (4.8–8.0)
Second dorsal-fin spine	16.5–17.9	22.2–24.25	20.55–21.7	20.55 (16.5–23.3)	19.8
Third dorsal-fin spine	15.8–17.1	18.1–19.3	17.4–18.8	17.9 (16.1–19.2)	19.8
Spine of second dorsal fin	13.8–14.6	13.9–15.9	15.1	13.1 (11.7–18.0)	18.1
Longest soft dorsal-fin ray	25.5–25.65	23.6–24.0	Damaged	Damaged (23.6–30.2)	27.8
First anal-fin spine	2.9–3.1	2.2–3.4	2.9	2.75 (3.1–5.7)	2.5
Second anal-fin spine	12.6–12.7	12.6–14.5	13.6–15.1	13.9 (11.8–20.6)	16.65
Longest soft anal-fin ray	23.2–24.2	20.7–23.0	Damaged	Damaged (24.7–28.40	23.15
Pectoral fin	29.2–30.3	25.4–26.7	26.85–27.5	27.75 (27.1–44.3)	33.3
Pelvic fin	23.1–24.05	23.3–26.1	23.4–24.9	23.3 (22.4–27.5)	26.0
Pelvic-fin spine	14.2–15.1	16.2–19.3	17.4–18.8	15.6 (12.2–16.1)
Caudal-fin length	31.4–35.5	32.8	31.6	Damaged (34.0–40.2)
Length of caudal peduncle	25.9–28.2	27.2–30.1	27.5–29.7	27.2 (23.3–39.2)	29.4
Depth of caudal peduncle	13.4–14.0	13.0–15.9	14.2–14.65	13.6 (11.0–14.8)	10.15
Pelvic-fin to anal-fin origin	25.0–29.4	19.3–28.0	24.1–25.6	24.8
Predorsal distance	41.4–43.1	42.2–44.8	40.55–41.5	43.4 (38.3–42.6)	41.7
Preanal distance	61.8–64.0	58.0–62.7	58.6–58.8	61.2 (56.2–61.3)
Prepelvic distance	37.2–40.1	35.9–40.0	35.9–38.1	36.8 (30.6–39.0)
Counts
Pectoral-fin rays (left/right)	12/12	12/12	12/12	12/12 (12–13)	12/12
Predorsal scales	6–7 (scale pockets)	6–8	5–6	Lost (6)	6
Scales between lateral line and first dorsal-fin origin	1	2	1	1 (1)	1
Total gill rakers	4–5+10–11	4+13	4+12–13	5+15 (4–5+14–18)	5+15
Developed gill rakers	2+9	1+12	2+11	2+14 (2–3+13–15)	5+15
Gill rakers on ceratobranchial	7	8	8	10 (9–10)	?