| kyphosus gladius, a new species of sea chub from western australia (teleostei: kyphosidae), with comments on segutilum klunzingeri whitley. | two morphologically distinct forms of the nominal species kyphosus sydneyanus (günther, 1886) (kyphosidae) were discerned while collecting off western australia near perth in 2009. a morphological comparison with recognized species of kyphosus and an analysis of mtdna (cytochrome b, control region, 12s and 16s) and three ndna markers (rag1, rag2 and tmo-4c4) demonstrated that the more elongate of these forms was an undescribed species of kyphosus. it differs from congeners in the pacific and ind ... | 2013 | 24583811 |