Abstract
A new species of the marine hatchetfish genus Polyipnus is described, based upon two collections from the South China Sea, western Pacific Ocean. The specimens, collected in 1929 during the circumglobal MV Dana expedition, were not examined in detail until recently. Although Polyipnus danae n.sp. is distinguished from all other species of Polyipnus by a single long spine on each posttemporal bone and 11 or 12 anal photophores, these features and its low gill-raker counts suggest a close relationship to species of the P. laternatus Garman complex, especially to P. aquavitus Baird and P. unispinus Schultz which also occur in Indonesian seas.
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