, a new species of butterflyfish (Teleostei, Chaetodontidae) from Palau.

A new species of the butterflyfish genus (Chaetodontidae) is described from two specimens collected at a depth of 116 m off Ngemelis Island, Palau. is similar to Pyle & Kosaki, 2016 from the Hawaiian archipelago, and (Maugé & Bauchot, 1976) from the western Indian Ocean, but differs from these species in the number of soft dorsal-fin rays, size of head, body width, and body depth. There are also subtle differences in life color, and substantial differences in the mtDNA cytochrome oxidase I sequence (d ≈ 0.

, a new basslet from deep coral reefs in Micronesia (Perciformes, Percoidei, Serranidae).

The new species is described from four specimens collected at depths of 115-148 m near Palau and Pohnpei in Micronesia. It differs from the other three species of this genus in life color and in certain morphological characters, such as body depth, snout length, anterior three dorsal-fin spine lengths, caudal-fin length, and other characters. There are also genetic differences from the other four species of (d ≈ 0.