The rarest species, P. longipes, was originally described by
Motomura et al. (2001b) on the basis of three specimens (134-
159 mm standard length) collected off Mindanao Island, the Philippines.
Since then, neither additional specimens nor photographs
of P. longipes have been reported. However, a single large specimen
of Polydactylus collected from Vanuatu by a bottom trawl at
300-360 m depth, during the Boa 1 Survey of the Tropical Deep
Sea Benthos Program, from 9 to 18 September 2005, led by the
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, was recently examined
and confirmed as P. longipes. The specimen, herein described,
represents the first record of the species from outside the Philippines.
The rarest species, P. longipes, was originally described byMotomura et al. (2001b) on the basis of three specimens (134-159 mm standard length) collected off Mindanao Island, the Philippines.Since then, neither additional specimens nor photographsof P. longipes have been reported. However, a single large specimenof Polydactylus collected from Vanuatu by a bottom trawl at300-360 m depth, during the Boa 1 Survey of the Tropical DeepSea Benthos Program, from 9 to 18 September 2005, led by theMuséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, was recently examinedand confirmed as P. longipes. The specimen, herein described,represents the first record of the species from outside the Philippines.
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