Atractoscion cf. macrolepis Song, Kim & Kim, 2017

Atractoscion cf. macrolepis Song, Kim & Kim, 2017 View in CoL

Figure 28e View Fig Material 1 specimen, SMF PO 101.296, Dar bel Hamri, Zanclean.

Discussion In a recent analysis of Song et al. (2017) the hitherto widely distributed East Atlantic/Indo-West Pacific species A. aequidens (Cuvier, 1830) has been subdivided into four geographically separated species. Specimens from West Africa are placed in A. macrolepis , while A. aeqidens is restricted to South Africa. Terefore, specimens figured from South Africa in Schwarzhans (1993) and Smale et al. (1995) would represent A. aequidens and specimens figured in Lombarte et al. (2006) from Mauritania may represent A. macrolepis . However, Song et al. only studied A. macrolepis specimens from Angola and Namibia and, therefore, the identity of further northerly specimens remains tentative. Te unique specimen from Dar bel Hamri is consistent with the morphology of the extant specimens from Mauritania figured by Lombarte et al. and should represent the same species. Song et al. figured an otolith of A. microlepis Song et al., 2017 , but a comprehensive analysis of the otoliths of the various extant species of the genus is still outstanding.