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The new species differs from the only previously valid species in the genus,\n                    <jats:italic>Elates ransonnettii<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Steindachner, 1876), in having a large eye, a broad lateral vomerine tooth patch, a medial vomerine tooth patch, two pores on each lateral-line scale, a greater number of scale rows above the lateral line, an absence of a filamentous ray extending from the upper lobe of the caudal fin, a transparent dorsal-fin membrane with no dark pigmentation, and a wholly dark peritoneum. Analysis of cytochrome\n                    <jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic>\n                    oxidase subunit I (COI) data supports both genetic differentiation between\n                    <jats:italic>E. ransonnettii<\/jats:italic>\n                    and the new species as well as monophyly of the genus\n                    <jats:italic>Elates<\/jats:italic>\n                    . The new species is known only from specimens purchased in the General Santos Public Market in General Santos City caught in Sarangani Bay, in contrast to\n                    <jats:italic>E. ransonnettii<\/jats:italic>\n                    , which is broadly distributed in the western Pacific Ocean to the Malacca Strait and Andaman Sea.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3897\/zookeys.1281.181028","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,1]],"date-time":"2026-06-01T13:34:02Z","timestamp":1780320842000},"page":"1-19","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Revised diagnosis of the flathead genus Elates (Teleostei, Platycephalidae) and description of a new species collected from a fish market near Sarangani Bay, Philippines"],"prefix":"10.3897","volume":"1281","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-2273-9551","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Ned S.","family":"Rose","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America"},{"name":"National Systematics Laboratory, Office of Science and Technology, NOAA Fisheries, Washington, DC, United States of America"},{"name":"Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, College of Natural Resources and Environment, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States of America"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0022-5333","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Maybelle A.","family":"Fortaleza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Coral Reef Resiliency and Ecology Studies Laboratory, University of the Philippines, Davao, Philippines"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5472-6729","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Joey P.","family":"Cabasan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium"},{"name":"Coral Reef Resiliency and Ecology Studies Laboratory, University of the Philippines, Davao, Philippines"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3309-8062","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Kevin L.","family":"Labrador","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life Sciences, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, United States of America"},{"name":"Coral Reef Resiliency and Ecology Studies Laboratory, University of the Philippines, Davao, Philippines"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1387-5346","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Joemarie J.","family":"Lanutan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Coral Reef Resiliency and Ecology Studies Laboratory, University of the Philippines, Davao, Philippines"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1563-0369","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Cleto L.","family":"Na\u00f1ola Jr.","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Coral Reef Resiliency and Ecology Studies Laboratory, University of the Philippines, Davao, Philippines"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3580-6808","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Matthew G.","family":"Girard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7471-9283","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Katherine E.","family":"Bemis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Systematics Laboratory, Office of Science and Technology, NOAA Fisheries, Washington, DC, United States of America"},{"name":"Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2258","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"181028_B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.11646\/zootaxa.2008.1.1"},{"key":"181028_B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/s41597-023-02306-9"},{"key":"181028_B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1071\/MF9940375"},{"key":"181028_B4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bty560"},{"key":"181028_B5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/sysbio\/syw037"},{"key":"181028_B6","unstructured":"de Jesus EA, Diamante-Fabunan DAD, Nanola CL, White AT, Cabangon HJ (2001) Coastal Environmental Profile of the Sarangani Bay Area, Mindanao, Philippines. 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