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Specifically, taxonomic reassessment of sciaenids collected from fish markets on the islands of Java, Bali, and Lombok of Indonesia has revealed that specimens previously identified as\n                    <jats:italic>Johnius heterolepis<\/jats:italic>\n                    represent this new species.\n                    <jats:italic>Johnius javaensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold>\n                    is characterized by five vesicular mental barbels on the chin, 30\u201332 dorsal-fin rays, seven or eight scale rows below the lateral line; 11 or 12 lower gill rakers, 11 or 12 swim-bladder appendages, and ventral margin of the sagitta head expanded into a distinct convexity. Historically, four\n                    <jats:italic>Johnius<\/jats:italic>\n                    species (\n                    <jats:italic>J. amblycephalus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>J. fuscolineatus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>J. macropterus<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>J. mannarensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) were reported to have one mental barbel on the chin. The new species is readily distinguished from all other 33 described\n                    <jats:italic>Johnius<\/jats:italic>\n                    species by possessing five vesicular mental barbels on the chin. A phylogenetic analysis of 21\n                    <jats:italic>Johnius<\/jats:italic>\n                    species based on the 521-bp COI gene confirms that the new species is placed as a sister species of\n                    <jats:italic>J. macropterus<\/jats:italic>\n                    , based on an average of dissimilarity 8.16%.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3897\/zookeys.1259.160425","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,11]],"date-time":"2025-11-11T15:19:12Z","timestamp":1762874352000},"page":"169-183","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Johnius javaensis, a new species of croaker (Acanthuriformes, Sciaenidae) from the southern coast of Java, Indonesia"],"prefix":"10.3897","volume":"1259","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5966-9062","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Bai-an","family":"Lin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4878-3919","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"John J.","family":"Pogonoski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection, National Research Collections Australia, Hobart, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3199-7467","authenticated-orcid":true,"family":"Fahmi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Oceanography, National Research and Innovation Agency, Jakarta, Indonesia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4465-3022","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Kunto","family":"Wibowo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution, National Research and Innovation Agency, Cibinong, Indonesia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0474-8740","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Ning Labbish","family":"Chao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Dong Hwa University, Pingtung, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2441-9629","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Mathew","family":"Seymour","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"2258","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"160425_B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.11646\/zootaxa.4651.2.3"},{"key":"160425_B2","author":"Fricke","year":"2025"},{"key":"160425_B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3897\/zse.101.153172"},{"key":"160425_B4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.11646\/zootaxa.5116.3.5"},{"key":"160425_B5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3390\/jmse11030471"},{"key":"160425_B6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.11646\/zootaxa.5550.1.11"},{"key":"160425_B7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/bib\/bbx108"},{"key":"160425_B8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s11033-008-9252-1"},{"key":"160425_B9","first-page":"19","article-title":"Two new species of sciaenid fishes Johnius elongatus and Johnieops macrorhynus from India.","volume":"1","author":"Lal Mohan","year":"1975","journal-title":"Matsya"},{"key":"160425_B10","author":"Lal Mohan","year":"1984"},{"key":"160425_B11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ympev.2015.03.025"},{"key":"160425_B12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0176623"},{"key":"160425_B13","author":"Sabaj","year":"2025","journal-title":"Codes for natural history collections in ichthyology and herpetology (online supplement)"},{"issue":"1\u20132","key":"160425_B14","first-page":"1","article-title":"Phylogeny of the family Sciaenidae, with notes on its zoogeography (Teleostei, Perciformes).","volume":"36","author":"Sasaki","year":"1989","journal-title":"Memoirs of the Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University"},{"key":"160425_B15","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.11369\/jji1950.39.191"},{"key":"160425_B16","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.11369\/jji1950.41.65"},{"key":"160425_B17","author":"Sasaki","year":"1996"},{"key":"160425_B18","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/BF02678711"},{"key":"160425_B19","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/BF02678513"},{"key":"160425_B20","first-page":"3117","article-title":"Sciaenidae.","author":"Sasaki","year":"2001","journal-title":"The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. 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