. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum Zoology. TWO NEW SPECIES OF PSEUDOPLESIOPS 23 Live coloration. (Based on colour photographs of the holotype from the Great Barrier Reef, and of paratypes and other specimens from the Great Barrier Reef, Loyalty Islands, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Christmas Island and Taiwan) Head and body pinkish or yellowish brown to olive or bright green, sometimes becoming pinkish to orangish brown on snout, lips and intermandibular flap; iris pale yellow to green or brown, some- times with reddish grey to pink area around pupil; dorsal and anal fins yellowish, pinkis
. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum Zoology. TWO NEW SPECIES OF PSEUDOPLESIOPS 23 Live coloration. (Based on colour photographs of the holotype from the Great Barrier Reef, and of paratypes and other specimens from the Great Barrier Reef, Loyalty Islands, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Christmas Island and Taiwan) Head and body pinkish or yellowish brown to olive or bright green, sometimes becoming pinkish to orangish brown on snout, lips and intermandibular flap; iris pale yellow to green or brown, some- times with reddish grey to pink area around pupil; dorsal and anal fins yellowish, pinkish or orangish brown to olive or bright green, becoming paler distally, with bluish grey to bright blue distal margin, sometimes with broad pale orange to yellow stripe submarginally; bluish grey to pale blue spot or streak at base of alternate dorsal- and anal-fin rays; caudal fin yellowish or pinkish brown to olive or bright green; pectoral fins pinkish, greenish or yellowish hyaline; pelvic fins pale pink or olive to bright green, usually bluish grey to pale blue anteriorly and distally. Preserved coloration Head and body pale brown, slightly darker on dorsal part of head and body, and on lips and intermandibular flap; fins pale brown to brownish hyaline; bluish grey to blue spots and distal margins of dorsal and anal fins described above become greyish brown. Habitat and Distribution This species is distributed from the Maldive Islands, east and south to Vanuatu, and north to Taiwan. It has been collected from a variety of reef habitats, from shallow patch reefs to reef walls at depths ranging to at least 20 m (with some collections perhaps from as deep as 40 m). Comparisons with other species Pseudoplesiops immaculatus has been confused with P. revellei Schultz, a Pacific Plate endemic {sensu Springer, 1982). The two species closely resemble each other in morphometric and meristic values, and both possess a prominent intermandibular flap (Fig. 2), although this may be weakl
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