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Chaunax apus Lloyd 1909

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Chaunax apus Lloyd, 1909

(Fig. 4C; Tables 1, 2)

Chaunax apus Lloyd, 1909: 169 (type locality: Bay of Bengal, Myanmar, 530 fms [969 m]. Ho & Last 2013: 444.

Material. HUMZ 194508 (1, 212), Baruna Jaya IV, st. 11, 8°7.1’S, 109°50.4’E, 8°6.9’N, 109°48.8’E, off Java, 454–460 m, 7 May 2005. HUMZ 194282 (1, 76), HUMZ 194283 (1, 68), HUMZ 194284 (1, 45), Baruna Jaya IV, st. 30, 8°30.0’S, 110°46.8’E, 8°30.4’N, 110°45.1’E, off Java, 395–400 m, 14 May 2005.

Remarks. Our specimens represent the first record for Indonesia. This is one of the oldest nominal species of Chaunax, being the fourth described. Ho & Last (2013) confirmed it to be a valid species and the senior species in the C. abei -species group. A redescription of this species is being prepared by the first author.

Notes

Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Kawai, Toshio & Satria, Fayakun, 2015, Species of the anglerfish genus Chaunax from Indonesia, with descriptions of two new species (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae), pp. 301-308 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 63 on page 307, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4502357

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A987BBBA7DFF94FE8AA072E5D9FEBE

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4502365 (DOI)
Dataset: http://table.plazi.org/id/DF7F6625BA79FF90FF23A6A8E5CCFF38 (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.4502357 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF90FFC3BA7BFF92FFA4A615E161FFEB (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/8DBC268B-F75B-4EDF-95A5-2441AAD61600 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03A987BBBA7DFF94FE8AA072E5D9FEBE (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/182241522 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/6584/taxon/03A987BBBA7DFF94FE8AA072E5D9FEBE.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
HUMZ
Event date
2005-05-07 , 2005-05-14
Family
Chaunacidae
Genus
Chaunax
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
HUMZ 194282 , HUMZ 194283 , HUMZ 194284 , HUMZ 194508
Order
Lophiiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Lloyd
Species
apus
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2005-05-07 , 2005-05-14
Taxonomic concept label
Chaunax apus Lloyd, 1909 sec. Ho, Kawai & Satria, 2015

References

  • Lloyd RE (1909) A description of the deep-sea fish caught by the R. I. M. S. ship ' Investigator' since the year 1900, with supposed evidence of mutation in Malthopsis. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 2 (3): 139 - 180, pls. 44 - 50.
  • Ho H-C & Last PR (2013) Two new species of the coffinfish genus Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae) from the Indian Ocean. Zootaxa, 3710 (5): 436 - 448.