Abstract
ABSTRACT A new gurnard, Pterygotrigla spirai, is described from the deep water (250–440 m) of the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea. It differs from its congeners by its scaleless breast and the color pattern on its flanks. Pterygotrigla spirai is distinguished from P. arabica (Gulf of Oman) by its larger eye diameter and its less developed dorsal plates, and from P. hemisticta (Japan and Taiwan) by lacking transverse rows of white spots on its inner pectoral fin and its higher vertebral count.
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