Abstract:
Eptatretus indrambaryai n.sp. is described from ten specimens from two different localities in the Andaman Sea, at depths of about 267-400m where the temperature was about 11.0-12.2 Degree Celsius. The fish appears to be allied to E. okinoseanus Dean, 1904 from Japan, and E. octotrema Barnard, 1923 from South Africa in having eight gill apertures. It differs, however, from them mainly in having shorter trunk length (51.7-57.0% TL), slightly longer branchial region (8.6-10.6% TL), a thicker body (greatest depth of body excluding fanfold 8.3-10.3% TL), fewer slime pores (total 77-82), and a different total cusp count of teeth (45-48).
