Bothrocara molle Bean 1890
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Bothrocara molle Bean, 1890
Bothrocara mollis Bean, 1890: 39 (type locality: off the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada); Clemens & Wilby, 1949: 194, fig. 131.
Bothrocara molle: Clemens & Wilby, 1961: 390, fig. 271; Hart, 1973: 236, text fig.; Masuda et al., 1984: 309, pl. 275G; Mecklenburg et al., 2002: 732, text fig.
Bothrocaropsis alalonga Garman, 1899: 127, pl. 32, fig. 2.
Bothrocara remigera Gilbert, 1915: 366 (partim), pl. 20, fig. 19.
Lamprogrammus sp.: Trunov, 1999: 492, fig. 1.
Material examined: Scotia Sea off South Georgia: USNM 356643 (4 specimens; 115-165 mm SL) and SAIAB (RUSI) 60090 (3; 129-202 mm SL), 53°31.2'S, 37°50.9'W, ISLAS ORCADAS coll. UMO 7, 10 ft. beam trawl, 1286-1293 m, 11 May 1975, H. H. DeWitt. USNM 356646 (1; 215 mm SL), 53°26.7'S, 36°32.8'W, ISLAS ORCADAS coll. UMO 28, 10 ft. beam trawl, 2039-2187 m, 17 May 1975, H. H. DeWitt.
Diagnosis. Bothrocara molle is distinguished from its congeners by it long, slender gill rakers (raker ratio as percent: 163-267) and long pectoral fin, reaching almost to anus in young or just beyond it in adults.
Description. Vertebrae 18-20 + 85-91 = 104-110; D 99-105; A 84-89; P 14-15; C 10; pelvics absent; branchiostegal rays 6; gill rakers 5-6 + 16-20 = 21-26; vomerine teeth 0-3; palatine teeth absent in all; pseudobranch filaments 7-10; pyloric caeca 2; gill raker ratio (as percent) 222-267; preoperculomandibular pores 8; suborbital pores 6 + 3; postorbital pores 4; supraorbital (nasal) pores 2; interorbital pore 1; occipital pores absent. Lateral line double, with dorsal branch arching across body to just posterior to anus and mediolateral branch running from just anterior to anus to tail tip.
Remarks. The above synonymy, although incomplete, reflects my unpublished work on the genus Bothrocara, revisionary studies of which are in preparation. This species is close to B. brunneum with which it has long been confused. Bothrocara molle is known in the literature from Japan (Masuda et al., 1984) to Chile (as Bothrocara alalonga; Kong and Melendez, 1991), thus the new specimens represent a considerable range extension. Additionally, Trunov (1999) reported three specimens from Meteor Seamount in the South Atlantic questionably identified as an ophidioid, Lamprogrammus sp., which are probably B. molle.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/6C238C0C7848744B2626CE893B80D6CE (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/F40B31EF-77F0-42C8-B373-FCD07872A31A (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/374F6AE1511BEE392C5CB92D2E82AEAA (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/100119085 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- USNM , USNM, SAIAB
- Event date
- 1975-05-11 , 1975-05-17
- Family
- Acrididae
- Genus
- Bothrocara
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- USNM 356643, SAIAB (RUSI) 60090 , USNM 356646
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Species
- molle
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1975-05-11 , 1975-05-17
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bothrocara molle Bean, 1890 sec. Anderson, 2006
References
- Bean, T. H. (1890) New fishes collected off the coast of Alaska and the adjacent region southward. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 13, 37 - 45.
- Clemens, W. A. & Wilby, G. V. (1949) Fishes of the Pacific coast of Canada. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Bulletin, 68, 1 - 368.
- Clemens, W. A. & Wilby, G. V. (1961) Fishes of the Pacific coast of Canada, second edition. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Bulletin, 68, 1 - 443.
- Hart, J. L. (1973) Pacific fishes of Canada. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Bulletin, 180, 1740.
- Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago, Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 437 pp., 370 pls.
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2002) The Fishes of Alaska, American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, 1037 pp.
- Garman, S. (1899) The fishes. Reports of an exploration on the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Comminssion steamer " Albatross, " during 1892, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. Navy, commanding. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 24, 1 - 431, pls. 197.
- Gilbert, C. H. (1915) Fishes collected by the United States fisheries steamer " Albatross " in southern California in 1904. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 48, 305 - 380, pls. 1 - 422.
- Trunov, I. A. (1999) New data on species of fish from subantarctic and Antarctic waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Ichthyology, 39, 488 - 497.
- Kong U., I. & Melendez C., R. (1991) Estudio taxonomico y sistematico de la ictiofauna de aguas profundas capturada entre Arica e Isla Mocha. Estudias Oceanologicas, 10, 1 - 81.