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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 01 May 2002

New Species of Rimicola from California

Page Range: 441 – 444
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2002)002[0441:NSORFC]2.0.CO;2
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Abstract

A new species of clingfish (Gobiesocidae) in the genus Rimicola, that exhibits unique sexual dimorphisms, is described from the Santa Barbara Islands, California. It is most closely related to two other California Rimicola species that are also sexually dimorphic. Now that a Rimicola species described from the Caribbean has been determined to belong elsewhere, the genus reverts to its original status as a northeastern Pacific endemic.

Copyright: The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
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Holotype of Rimicola cabrilloi, SIO H 51–259. Two additional dorsal and anal rays are imbedded and not illustrated

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Rimicola dimorpha, male and female urogenital papillae

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Rimicola cabrilloi, male and female urogenital papillae

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Rimicola cabrilloi, teeth in the male; lateral view showing incisors and canines

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Rimicola sila, male and female urogenital papillae

Received: 19 Mar 2001
Accepted: 19 Oct 2001
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