title: Chriolepis bilix, a new species of goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from deep waters of the western Atlantic.
abstract: A new species of seven-spined goby of the genus Chriolepis is described from four specimens from four widely separate western Atlantic localities (Little Bahama Bank; off southwestern Florida; Tobago Island; and northeastern Colombia) from depths ranging from 62 to 138 m. The species is distinct from all other western Atlantic species currently assigned to the genus Chriolepis in having a fully scaled body, the first two dorsal-fin spines greatly elongated in both sexes, especially so in females, and two anal-fin pterygiophores inserted anterior to the first haemal spine. It differs from members of the similar genus Varicus in having branched pelvic-fins rays, a longer fifth pelvic-fin ray and more numerous meristic elements. It closely resembles Chriolepis atrimelum, known from a similar depth at Isla del Coco in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
authors.affiliation: Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0208, U.S.A.; Email: phastings@ucsd.edu.
authors.forename: Philip A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Hastings
authors.affiliation: Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C.-Unidad Guaymas, Carretera al Varadero Nacional km. 6.6, Colonia Las Playitas, Guaymas, Sonora, 85480 México; Email: findley@ciad.mx.
authors.forename: Lloyd T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Findley
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D000818:Animals; D001267:Atlantic Ocean; D017753:Ecosystem; D005260:Female; D005399:Fishes / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*