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Comparative osteology of the superfamily Congiopodoidea (Pisces: Scorpaenoidei)

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A detailed study of the structure of bone elements of the neurocranium and pectoral girdle and of the structure of pelvis of all three genera of the family Congiopodidae: Congiopodus, Alertichthys, and Zanclorhynchus, was carried out in the present paper. It resulted in the discovery of new complex apomorphies of Congiopodidae s.l., which are an additional and very convincing confirmation of the separate position of this family in the suborder Scorpaenoidei. These include the features of the posterior neurocranium structure: location, shape, and size of the parietal and supraoccipital, location of these bones in relation to the anterior pterygiophores D1, position of the first vertebrae in relation to the neurocranium and the highly complex structure of the cleithrum. Based on the osteological data, it was concluded that the taxonomic status of the family could be increased to superfamily Congiopodoidea, and its subfamilies, respectively, to the rank of the families Congiopodidae and Zanclorhynchidae.

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The authors pleased to express sincere gratitude to Nazarkin MV (ZIN RAS) for critical reading of the manuscript. We are grateful to the collector, Kuiter RH (Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia). We also express our deep gratitude to Palm VP for kind help in working with the ZIN collection.

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The study was supported by the Russian State Research Program number AAAA-A19-119020790033-9.

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Voskoboinikova, O.S., Zhukov, M.Y. Comparative osteology of the superfamily Congiopodoidea (Pisces: Scorpaenoidei). Zoomorphology 140, 373–385 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-021-00537-1

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