{"id":1842,"date":"2014-10-24T08:18:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T08:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.science.nus.edu.sg\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2019-11-07T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T08:20:02","slug":"a-new-species-of-glassperch-fish-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.science.nus.edu.sg\/blog\/2014\/10\/a-new-species-of-glassperch-fish-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"A new species of glassperch fish discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"style3\"><span>24 Oct 2014. NUS scientists discovered a new species of glassperch fish in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr TAN Heok Hui from the Department of Biological Sciences in NUS has just described a new species of <span class=\"style3\">glassperch fish<\/span>. The new specie, <i>Gymnochanda ploegi<\/i>, is found in<span class=\"style3\"> the Sanggau area in West Kalimantan, Indonesia<\/span> (see Figure). This specie is coloured sexually dimorphic freshwater glassfish allied to <i>Gymnochanda verae<\/i>. It shares with its other congeners that has a body without scales, and is different from its congeners with males having a maroon-red first dorsal fin. This fish has expanded maroon-red anal and second dorsal fins with black distal portions. Its head has a reddish opercle cover and without any individual fin ray elongations.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tANhh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.science.nus.edu.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/tANhh.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"584\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Photograph of <i>Gymnochanda ploegi<\/i>.<i> <\/i>[Image credit: TAN Heok Hui]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Reference<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tan HH, K Lim \u201c<i>Gymnochanda ploegi<\/i>, a new species of ambassid glassperch from West Kalimantan, Indonesia.\u201d Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62 (2014) 688<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 Oct 2014. NUS scientists discovered a new species of glassperch fish in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. 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