First record of the Bignose Unicornfish, <em>Naso vlamingii </em>(Perciformes, Acanthuridae) from Korea

Check List 14(3): 545-548, doi: 10.15560/14.3.545

First record of the Bignose Unicornfish, Naso vlamingii (Perciformes, Acanthuridae) from Korea

Hyuck Joon Kwun^‡, Heakyoung Jung^§

‡ National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea, Seocheon-gun, Korea, South§ Jeju Marine Animal Museum, Seogwipo, Korea, South

Corresponding author: Hyuck Joon Kwun ( kwunhj@hotmail.com )

Academic editor: Zeehan Jaafar

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Citation: Kwun HJ, Jung H (2018) First record of the Bignose Unicornfish, Naso vlamingii (Perciformes, Acanthuridae) from Korea. Check List 14(3): 545-548. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.3.545

Abstract

Naso vlamingii (Valenciennes, 1835) is reported from Korea for the first time and a morphological description is provided. A single specimen of N. vlamingii was collected from the southeastern coast of Jeju Island, Korea in September 2017. This species is characterized by the presence of 2 bony plates on the middle of the caudal peduncle, 6 dorsal and 2 anal fin spines, and a rounded, convex, swollen snout. This species is the fifth species of the genus Naso Lacepède, 1801 in the Korean fish fauna, and the newly proposed Korean name for the species is “Keun-ko-pyo-mun-jwi-chi”.

Keywords

First record, Jeju Island, subtropical fish