• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.283-287
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• 2019

Two specimens of Taractes rubescens (family Bramidea) were collected from Busan and Pohang, Korea, between 2015 and 2016. Taractes rubescens was very similar to Taractes asper, but the two species are clearly distinguishable by the number of anal fin rays (21-23 in T. rubescens vs. 25-27 in T. asper) and the presence of a lateral caudal keel (present in T. rubescens vs. absent in T. asper). The mitochondrial DNA cytochrome c oxidase subunit I sequences of the specimens described in this paper perfectly matched those of T. rubescens, but differed from those of T. asper (genetic distance: 6.9%). We use the Korean common name proposed by Kim and Ryu (2017) for T. rubescens, "Geom-eun-sae-da-rae".