Aldrovandia phalacra Vaillant 1888
Description
Aldrovandia phalacra (Vaillant, 1888)
Fig. 6.
Halosaurus phalacrus, Vaillant [L. L.] 1888: 185, Pl. 15 (fig. 3), 16 (figs. 1-1c). Morocco, 1,103–2,190 m; Sudan, 1,250–1,435 m; Azores, 37°35'N, 29°26'W, 1,442–2,220 m. Lectotype: MNHN 1885-0382. McDowell 1973: 91 –92 (key), 105–114 (description); Filatova 1985: 27 –29 (description), 33–34 (key); Sulak 1986a: 593 –598 (description, key); Sulak 1986b: 196 –197 (description, key); Maul 1976: 20 –22 (description); Smith 2003 (key).
Material examined. MHNUSC 25014- 1, 190 mm TL, 7th August 2011, Galicia Bank; 42º41.771'N— 011º33.647'W; 1,536 m depth; MHNUSC 25012- 2, 330 mm TL, 6th August 2011, Galicia Bank; 42º41.771'N— 11º33.647'W; 1,477 m depth.
Description. Body shape eel-like, moderately compressed, elongated and attenuated to the caudal peduncle; top of snout and head scaleless, opercle scaleless; the preoral portion of the snout is short, contained 3.8 and 4.7 times in the snout length; first dorsal ray very short and vestigial; pelvic fins lie well in advance of dorsal origin; palatine tooth patches separate; pyloric caeca black and anal opening white surrounded by a dark field. The main morphometric and meristic characteristics are presented in Table 7.
Habitat and distribution. Benthopelagic between 500–2,300 m depth. Circumglobal, mainly at tropical and temperate latitudes. Eastern Atlantic, from the Gulf of Biscay to Guinea and off South Africa; western Atlantic from Greenland, New England, USA to Bahamas and off southern Brazil; eastern Pacific, in Hawaii and Chile (Froese & Sampang 2004; Yeh et al. 2006).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2011-08-06 , 2011-08-07
- Family
- Halosauridae
- Genus
- Aldrovandia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Notacanthiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Vaillant
- Species
- phalacra
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2011-08-06 , 2011-08-07
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aldrovandia phalacra Vaillant, 1888 sec. Bañón, Arronte, Armesto, Barros-García & Carlos, 2016
References
- Vaillant, L. L. (1888) Expeditions scientifiques du " Travailleur " et du " Talisman " pendant les annees 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883. Poissons. G. Masson, Paris, 406 pp.
- McDowell, B. C. (1973) Family Halosauridae. In: Cohen, D. M. (Ed.), Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Memoirs of the Sears Foundation of Marine Research, New Haven, pp. 32 - 123.
- Filatova, N. A. (1985) Halosaurus (Notacanthiformes) of the Indian Ocean. Journal of. Ichthyology, 25, 22 - 35.
- Sulak, K. J. (1986 a) Halosauridae. In: Whitehead, P. J. P. Bauchot, M. - L. Hureau, J. - C. Nielsen, J. & Tortonese, E. (Eds.), Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris, pp. 593 - 598.
- Sulak, K. J. (1986 b) Halosauridae. In: Smith, M. M. & Heemstra, P. C. (Eds.), Smith's sea fishes. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, pp. 196 - 197.
- Maul, G. E. (1976) The fishes taken in bottom trawls by R. V. ' Meteor' during the 1967 seamounts cruises in the northeast Atlantic. Meteor Forschungsergebnisse, 22, 1 - 69.
- Smith, D. G. (2003) Halosauridae. In: Carpenter, K. E. (Ed.), FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Bony fishes part 1 (Acipenseridae to Grammatidae). FAO, Rome, pp. 685 - 687.
- Froese, R. & Sampang, A. (2004) Preliminary annotated checklist of seamount fishes. In: Morato, T. & Pauly, D. (Eds.), Seamounts: Biodiversity and Fisheries. Fisheries Centre Research Report, 12, pp. 1 - 73.
- Yeh, H. M., Lee, M. Y. & Shao, K. T. (2006) Three New Records of Halosaurid Fishes (Pisces: Halosauridae) from the deep waters adjacent to Taiwan. Journal of the Fisheries Society of Taiwan, 33, 345 - 355.