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It is characterized by the following combination of characters: dorsal-fin rays 11\u201313; anal-fin rays 8\u201310; lateral-line scales 49\u201351; scale rows above lateral line 3.5; scale rows below lateral line 4.5; vertebrae 49\u201352; anterior gill rakers 22\u201329; peritoneal spots 0\u20135; anterior palatine teeth in a discrete group, longer than posterior palatine teeth; anterior nostril flap long, broad, leaf-like, extending above and behind posterior margin of posterior nostril when laid back; posterior process of pelvic girdle wide; posterior part of preopercle scaled; body with 5 reddish saddle-like blotches; and lateral surface below lateral line with a straight row of brown blotches when fresh. The new species is similar to <jats:italic>Synodus binotatus<\/jats:italic> Schultz, 1953 and <jats:italic>Synodus rubromarmoratus<\/jats:italic> Russell &amp; Cressey, 1979, but these species differ in having 52\u201356 and 53\u201355 lateral-line scales, respectively. In addition, <jats:italic>S. binotatus<\/jats:italic> has blotches below the lateral line in a zigzag pattern, and <jats:italic>S. rubromarmoratus<\/jats:italic> has anterior and posterior palatine teeth similar in length, 14\u201325 teeth on the tongue, and 0\u20135 peritoneal spots. No color pattern differences were apparent between the new species and <jats:italic>S. rubromarmoratus<\/jats:italic>, making differentiation between the two species in underwater photographs impossible; consequently, underwater photographs and unsupported catalog records were excluded from the reassessment of each species\u2019 distribution. Examination of specimens reported as <jats:italic>S. rubromarmoratus<\/jats:italic> revealed that the true <jats:italic>S. rubromarmoratus<\/jats:italic> has been collected only in Australian waters, whereas <jats:italic>S. autumnus<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> is widely distributed in the eastern Indian and Pacific oceans.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3897\/zookeys.1243.147259","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,26]],"date-time":"2025-06-26T11:47:24Z","timestamp":1750938444000},"page":"191-206","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Synodus autumnus, a new species of lizardfish (Aulopiformes, Synodontidae) from the Indo-Pacific region, and a reassessment of distributional records of Synodus rubromarmoratus"],"prefix":"10.3897","volume":"1243","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8313-1775","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Ryusei","family":"Furuhashi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7448-2482","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Hiroyuki","family":"Motomura","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"2258","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,26]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"147259_B1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Coral reef fishes of Indonesia.","volume":"42","author":"Allen","year":"2003","journal-title":"Zoological Studies (Taipei, Taiwan)"},{"key":"147259_B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1896\/054.064.0104"},{"key":"147259_B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5281\/zenodo.546124"},{"key":"147259_B4","first-page":"20","article-title":"Additions to the fish fauna of the Maldive Islands. 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