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ACERO P., Arturo  e  GARZON-FERREIRA, Jaime. DESCRIPCIÓN DE UNA ESPECIE NUEVA DE HYPOPLECTRUS (PISCES: SERRANIDAE) DEL CARIBE OCCIDENTAL Y COMENTARIOS SOBRE LAS ESPECIES COLOMBIANAS DEL GENERO. Bol. Invest. Mar. Cost. [online]. 1994, vol.23, n.1, pp.5-14. ISSN 0122-9761.

The masked hamlet is herewith officially described as Hypoplectrus providencianus n. sp. It can be clearly separated from the other hamlets by coloration: light body, black tear-like bar, pectorals fins black or at least with black upper edges, caudal fin dark or at least with upper and lower dark margins, a black caudal saddle well developed to absent. The new species is known only from islands of the western Caribbean and adjacent waters: Providencia, Courtown (= Bolivar) and Alburquerque cays, Grand Cayman and Jamaica. Information is presented about the other species of the genus known from Colombia: barred hamlet, butter hamlet, black hamlet, shy hamlet, golden hamlet and indigo hamlet.

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