Parascolopsis akatamae, a new species of dwarf monocle bream (Perciformes Nemipteridae) from the Indo-West Pacific, with redescription of closely related species P. eriomma Author Miyamoto, Kei Okinawa Churashima Foundation, Ishikawa 888, Motobu, Okinawa 905 - 0206, Japan & Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Ishikawa 424, Motobu, Okinawa 905 - 0206, Japan Author Mcmahan, Caleb D. Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA Author Kaneko, Atsushi 0000-0001-9558-2661 Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Ishikawa 424, Motobu, Okinawa 905 - 0206, Japan & a-kaneko @ okichura. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9558 - 2661 a-kaneko@okichura.jp text Zootaxa 2020 2020-11-18 4881 1 91 103 journal article 7947 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.1.6 4ef975db-a444-49ec-9e25-7c431059cf03 1175-5326 4425860 CC71E78B-2EC9-430F-B98F-9BEB730E299A

TABLE 1. Counts and measurements of Parascolopsis akatamae n. sp. and Parascolopsis eriomma.

	Parascolopsis akatamae n. sp.		Parascolopsis eriomma
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	Holotype	Paratypes and non-types	Holotype	Non-types
	Okinawa Island, Japan	southern Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia and Thailand	Kaohsiung, Taiwan	southern Japan, Philippines and Indonesia
	OCF-P4098	n = 43	FMNH 52247	n = 14
Standard length (mm)	115.5	98.3–278.8	190.9	107.9–172.8
Counts:
Dorsal-fin rays	X, 9	X, 8–9 (almost 9)	X, 9	X, 9
Anal-fin rays	III, 7	III, 7	III, 7	III, 7
Pectoral-fin rays	17	16–17	17	16–17
Pelvic-fin rays	I, 5	I, 5	I, 5	I, 5
Pored lateral-line scales	36	35–37	37	34–37
Scales between lateral-line and 5th dorsal-fin spine	2 ½	2 ½	2 ½	2 ½
Scales below lateral-line	13	12–14	12	11–13
Scale rows on preopercle	4	3–5	4	3–5
Scale rows on opercle	4	3–6	5	4–5
Gill rakers	18	16–19	17	15–17
Vertebras	10 + 14	10 + 14	-	10 + 14
Measurements (% SL):
Body depth	37.1	31.5–40.4	37.1	30.2–34.8
Head length	31.2	28.9–32.9	30.2	30.6–31.9
Snout length	7.4	6.1–8.8	7.9	6.8–8.3
Eye diameter	10.9	8.6–12.8	10.0	10.9–12.9
Interorbital width	8.7	7.9–10.2	10.4	8.2–9.3
Suborbital depth	3.0	2.0–3.2	2.7	2.4–2.9
Upper jaw length	10.2	8.8–11.2	10.4	9.4–10.6
Depth of caudal-peduncle	10.5	9.6–11.4	9.9	9.1–10.4
Length of caudal-peduncle	21.9	20.5–24.5	19.8	21.3–24.1
Predorsal-fin length	34.7	32.5–36.3	33.9	33.5–36.8
	Holotype	Paratypes and non-types	Holotype	Non-types
	Okinawa Island, Japan	southern Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia and Thailand	Kaohsiung, Taiwan	southern Japan, Philippines and Indonesia
	OCF-P4098	n = 43	FMNH 52247	n = 14
Dorsal-fin base length	53.6	51.4–55.8	51.8	50.2–54.2
Longest dorsal-fin spine length	16.7	13.1–17.2	12.7	13.7–15.6
Pectoral-fin length	30.1	25.3–32.0	28.6	26.2–29.8
pelvic-fin spine length	15.7	15.3–17.9	15.6	14.6–18.0
1st soft pelvic-fin ray length	26.1	19.8–27.4	21.3	21.1–25.3
Preanal-fin length	65.1	63.8–72.0	66.2	64.2–67.0
Anal-fin base length	17.4	16.4–19.0	18.6	15.9–17.8
1st anal-fin spine length	7.7	5.9–8.5	6.1	6.0–7.9
2nd anal-fin spine length	13.1	9.0–14.3	10.4	10.8–13.4
3rd anal-fin spine length	13.8	11.2–14.7	11.7	11.5–13.3
Upper lob of caudal-fin length	30.3	26.5–31.0	broken	28.2–32.5
Fork part of caudal-fin length	16.5	14.7–17.3	12.7	13.6–15.4
Lower lob of caudal-fin length	27.8	24.3–29.3	broken	25.8–29.4