Acknowledgement
This work was supported by the management of Marine Fishery Bio-resources Center (2024) funded by the National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea (MABIK), Seocheon, by the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR), Incheon, and by the research program of KIOST (Contract No. PEA0201). We thank Drs. Taewon Jung, Jongguk Kim, and Hyunkyung Kim, Honam National Institute of Biological Resources(HNIBR), Mokpo, who made us available to study samples of Acanthomolgus crassae n. sp. and A. taenichaetatus n. sp. they collected.
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