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Article History

Received: 1 October 2020

Revised: 22 December 2020

Accepted: 5 January 2021

First Online: 7 April 2021

Compliance with ethical standards

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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

: All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed by the authors.

: The specimens of the new species used in this study were all taken from fish market surveys at Ranong fishing port in Thailand. All specimens were dead prior to the surveys being undertaken. The fishing port surveys were conducted by the second author (SA) as part of his Masters Thesis program through the Prince of Songkhla University and permissions to collect data were done in accordance with the Thailand Department of Fisheries. All comparative material used in this study were deposited in museum collections around the world and were borrowed with official loan documentation from these collections. No live animals were collected or killed during this study.

: Ranges of the morphological and meristic data obtained in this study are provided in the description and/or diagnoses and in Table. The raw morphological and meristic data generated during this current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. NADH2 sequences used in this study have been deposited on GenBank and related accession numbers are provided in the related figure and text sections.

: Designed the field study (Thailand): SA. Performed the fieldwork: SA. Conducted the statistical analysis of the data: WW. Conducted the molecular analyses: GN. Captured morphological and meristic data: WW. Wrote the manuscript: WW, GN, SA. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.