Luciobrotula Smith & Radcliffe 1913
Creators
- 1. Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
- 2. Marine Fisheries Division, Fisheries Research Institute, Council of Agriculture, No. 199, Heyi Road, Keelung 202008, Taiwan.
Description
Key to all known species of Luciobrotula Smith & Radcliffe, 1913
(modified from Nielsen 2009)
1. Precaudal vertebrae 13; total vertebrae 50 or 51............................................................................... 2
– Precaudal vertebrae 15 or 16; total vertebrae 52–57......................................................................... 3
2. Lateral line ending at 2 nd dorsal-fin ray; total gill rakers 13–14...................................................................................................................................................... L. brasiliensis Nielsen, 2009 (off Brazil)
– Lateral line ending at 33 rd dorsal-fin ray; total gill rakers 17................................................................................................................................................... L. polylepis sp. nov. (off Papua New Guinea)
3. Lateral line short and distinct, ending at 2 nd dorsal-fin ray.... L. lineata (Gosline, 1954) (off Hawaii)
– Lateral line long, usually indistinct, ending at 19 th –37 th dorsal-fin ray.............................................. 4
4. Dorsal-fin rays 81–89;anal-fin rays59–65;first gill arch with3developed rakers and 18–23dentigerous plates; longest filaments on first gill arch 2.8–3.6% SL......... L. coheni Nielsen, 2009 (East Pacific)
– Dorsal-fin rays 86–96; anal-fin rays 66–75; first gill arch with 3–4 developed rakers and 12–18 dentigerous plates; longest filaments on fist gill arch 1.3–2.7% SL.................................................. 5
5. Four occipital pores, one interorbital pore; first anal-fin ray below 18 th –24 th dorsal-fin rays; dorsal rim of otolith without concavity (large specimens)................................................................................................................................................ L. bartschi Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 (Indo-West Pacific)
– Pores absent on occipital and interorbital region; first anal-fin ray below 24 th –28 th dorsal-fin rays; dorsal rim of otolith with or without concavity................................................................................. 6
6. Head brown; otolith with a distinct concavity in dorsal rim in specimens larger than 300 mm SL; total vertebrae 56–57; longest pelvic-fin ray 7.9–9.6% SL..................................................................................................................... L. corethromycter Cohen, 1964 (Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea)
– Head pale; otolith without a distinct concavity in dorsal rim in specimens larger than 300 mm SL; total vertebrae 53–55; longest pelvic-fin ray 11.0–12.5% SL.................................................................................................................................................... L. nolfi Cohen, 1981 (tropical East Atlantic)
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ophidiidae
- Genus
- Luciobrotula
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophidiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith & Radcliffe
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Luciobrotula Smith, 1913 sec. Wong, Lee & Chen, 2021
References
- Radcliffe L. 1913. Descriptions of seven new genera and thirty-one new species of fishes of the families Brotulidae and Carapidae from the Philippine Islands and the Dutch East Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 44 (1948): 135 - 176. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.44 - 1948.135
- Nielsen J. G. 2009. A revision of the bathyal genus Luciobrotula (Teleostei, Ophidiidae) with two new species. Galathea Report 22: 141 - 156.
- Cohen D. M. 1964. A review of the ophidioid fish genus Luciobrotula with the description of a new species from the western North Atlantic. Bulletin of Marine Science 14 (3): 387 - 398.
- Cohen D. M. 1981. New and rare ophidiiform fishes from the eastern Atlantic: Canary Islands to the Cape of Good Hope. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94 (4): 1085 - 1103.