REVIEW OF THE SOLES OF THE GENUS ASERAGGODES OF THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES
JOHN E. RANDALL A1 and OFER GON A2
A1 Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817-2704, USA
A2 South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, P.O. Box 1015, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
Abstract: The Indo-Pacific soleid fish genus Aseraggodes is represented by eight species in the western Indian Ocean and Red Sea: A. brevirostris, n. sp., described from two specimens from the Comoro Islands; A. diringeri Quéro, type locality, Réunion, recorded here from Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoro Islands, KwaZulu-Natal, and Kenya; A. guttulatus Kaup, the type species of the genus, known from one specimen from Réunion; A. heemstrai, n. sp., described from 16 specimens from KwaZulu-Natal; A. jenny, n. sp., described from one specimen from Mauritius; A. sinusarabici Chabanaud, known from 9 adult syntypes taken by trawling in 35–68 m the Gulf of Suez (one designated as lectotype); A. steinitzi Joglekar, described from three small specimens from the southern Red Sea (none available for study); and A. umbratilis (Alcock), described from five specimens (one designated as lectotype) taken by trawling at depths of 70–271 m in the Bay of Bengal and later reported from the Arabian Sea.
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