Synchiropus sechellensis Regan, 1908

Fricke, Ronald, 2016, Synchiropus novaehiberniensis, a new species of dragonet from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with a review of subgenus Synchiropus (Neosynchiropus) and description of a new subgenus (Teleostei: Callionymidae), Journal of Natural History 50, pp. 3003-3028 : 3013

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2016.1210690
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5195336
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scientific name	Synchiropus sechellensis Regan, 1908
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Synchiropus sechellensis Regan, 1908 View in CoL

Seychelles dragonet

Synchiropus sechellensis Regan, 1908: 249 View in CoL , pl. 30, fig. 1 ( Seychelles; syntypes: BMNH 1908.3 .23.265–266, 2 specimens) .

Synchiropus altivelis Regan, 1908: 249 View in CoL , Pl. 30 (fig. 2) ( Seychelles; holotype: BMNH 1908.3.23.264; secondarily preoccupied by Callionymus altivelis Temminck and Schlegel, 1845 View in CoL when in genus Synchiropus View in CoL , replaced by Synchiropus normani Schultz and Woods, 1948 ).

Synchiropus normani Schultz and Woods, 1948: 419 ( Seychelles; replacement name for Synchiropus altivelis Regan, 1908 View in CoL , secondarily preoccupied in Synchiropus View in CoL by Callionymus altivelis Temminck and Schlegel, 1845 View in CoL ).

Distribution and habitat. Red Sea (Gulf of Suez); Gulf of Aden; Somalia; Seychelles; Maldives; East Coral Sea (Chesterfield Islands; Banc du Sable); New Caledonia (Grande Terre Group); Mediterranean Sea ( Turkey, as Lessepsian migrant). Sand and rubble, 37– 68 m.