Abyssobrotula Nielsen, 1977

Ohashi, Shinpei & Nielsen, Jørgen G., 2016, A new species of Abyssobrotula (Ophidiiformes, Ophidiidae) from the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, Zootaxa 4132 (4), pp. 559-566 : 560

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Abyssobrotula Nielsen, 1977 View in CoL

Abyssobrotula Nielsen, 1977: 41 View in CoL , type species Abyssobrotula galatheae Nielsen, 1977 View in CoL (type locality: Kermadec Trench, New Zealand).

Abyssobrotula: Cohen & Nielsen 1978: 24 View in CoL , fig. 34; Shcherbachev 1980: 114; Shcherbachev & Tsinovsky 1980: 55; Machida 1989: 23; Nielsen et al. 1999: 50, fig. 45.

Diagnosis. This diagnosis is a slightly modified version of the one from Nielsen et al. (1999) due to the establishing of a new species. An ophidiid genus characterized by the following combination of characters: Body compressed and short head with a downward inflection, swollen snout, inferior mouth long, its posterior margin extending well behind small eye, body and head fully scaled, two median and a pair of basibranchial tooth patches, dorsal-fin rays 97–116, anal-fin rays 76–96, 10–15 pectoral-fin rays extending beyond anus, pelvic-fin rays 2, long rakers 8–11 on anterior gill arch, precaudal vertebrae 17–20, total vertebrae 67–75.

References

Nielsen, J. G., Cohen, D. M., Markle, D. F. & Robins, C. R. (1999) FAO species catalogue. Vol. 18. Ophidiiform fishes of the world (Order Ophidiiformes). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eel, brotulas and other ophidiiform fishes known to date. FAO, Rome, 178 pp.

Cohen, D. M. & Nielsen, J. G. (1978) Guide to the identification of genera of the fish order Ophidiiformes with a tentative classification of the order. NOAA Technical Report NMFS Circular, 417, 1 - 72. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 63242

Machida, Y. (1989) Record of Abyssobrotula galatheae (Ophidiidae: Ophidiiformes) from the Izu-Bonin Trench, Japan. Bulletin of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, Kochi University, 11, 23 - 25.

Nielsen, J. G. (1977) The deepest living fish Abyssobrotula galatheae a new genus and species of oviparous ophidioids (Pisces, Brotulidae). Galathea Report, 14, 41 - 48.

Shcherbachev, Y. N. & Tsinovsky, V. D. (1980) New finds of deep-sea brotulids Abyssobrotula galatheae Nielsen, Acanthonus armatus Gunther and Typhlonus nasus Gunther (Pisces, Ophidioidei) in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Bulletin of the Society of the Naturalists of Moscow, Biological Section, New Series, 85, 53 - 58.