A Record of the Rare Filefish, Thamnaconus garretti (Fowler, 1928), Collected around Midway Island, Central Pacific (Actinopterygii, Tetraodontiformes, Monacanthidae)

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Nagappan, Nagappan, Dcruz, Thomson Mariadasan, Loganathan, Archana, Gupte, Shreyas H, Ali, Rajab, Karthik, Prasanna, Mani, Bhuvaneswari, Moulvi, S M M (2021): A Record of the Rare Filefish, Thamnaconus garretti (Fowler, 1928), Collected around Midway Island, Central Pacific (Actinopterygii, Tetraodontiformes, Monacanthidae). Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 47 (1): 31-35, DOI: 10.50826/bnmnszool.47.1_31, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_1187_23

Abstract Four specimens of the rare filefish, Thamnaconus garretti (Fowler, 1928), were collected from the waters around Midway Island in the central Pacific. Detailed examinations of these specimens provide distinguishing characters of this filefish, placing it in the genus Thamnaconus Smith, 1949. Comparisons of the present specimens and previously reported specimens suggest that sexual dimorphism occurs in this rare filefish: the body is more elongate in males than females and the dorsal profile is slightly convex in males and straight in females.

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