Prognathodes marcellae
Description
Material examined. – No voucher specimens. One individual caught on a fish-trap and photographed, and then identified by the authors. An adult, approximately 97 mm TL, off El Burrero Beach, 27°54’N 15°23’W, 40-50 m, 16 Aug. 2014, sand (Fig. 2D).
Sightings and catches. – Twice, n = 2: off El Burrero Beach, 40-50 m, sand; Baja de Gando (= Gando reef), 27° 56’N 15°21’W, 23 m, rocks (Fig. 3).
Remarks. – A tropical reef-associated species, living from 12 to 140 m of depth (Maugé, 1990). Most specimens were collected on soft bottoms (Maugé, 1990). Oviparous; form pairs during breeding (Breder and Rosen, 1966). No information exists on its feeding habits in literature. Maximum length published is 116 mm TL (Reiner, 2005). An eastern Atlantic species, known from Senegal and Cape Verde Islands (Maugé, 1990; Brito et al., 1999; Wirtz et al., 2013; Hanel and John, 2015) to Angola (Bianchi, 1986), including the Gulf of Guinea islands of São Tomé and Rolas where is common at 5-20 m (Wirtz et al., 2007).
P. marcellae was first reported from the Canaries by Brito (1991), as a demersal littoral species on rocky bottom, based on one individual caught in the South of Tenerife Island.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Poll
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Prognathodes
- Species
- marcellae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Prognathodes marcellae (Poll, 1950) sec. Triay-Portella, Pajuelo, Manent, Espino, Ruiz-Díaz, Lorenzo & González, 2015
References
- MAUGE L. A., 1990. - Chaetodontidae. In: Check-List of the Fishes of the Eastern Tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA) (Quero J. C., Hureau J. C., Karrer C., Post A., Saldanha L., eds), 2: 837 - 840. Lisbon: JNICT; Paris SEI; Paris: UNESCO.
- BREDER C. M. & ROSEN D. E., 1966. - Modes of Reproduction in Fishes. 941 p. Neptune City, New Jersey: TFH Publ.
- REINER F., 2005. - Peixes do Arquipelago de Cabo Verde. 340 p. Mindelo, Republica de Cabo Verde: Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas.
- BRITO A., HERRERA R., FALCON J. M., GARCIA-CHARTON J. A., BARQUIN J. & PEREZ-RUZAFA A., 1999. - Contribucion al conocimiento de la ictiofauna de las Islas de Cabo Verde. Rev. Acad. Canar. Cienc., 11 (3 - 4): 27 - 41.
- WIRTZ P., BRITO A., FALCON J. M., FREITAS R., FRICKE R., MONTEIRO V., REINER F. & TARICHE O., 2013. - The coastal fishes of the Cape Verde Islands - new records and an annotated check-list. Spixiana, 36 (1): 113 - 142.
- HANEL R. & JOHN H. C., 2015. - A revised checklist of Cape Verde Islands sea fishes. J. Appl. Ichthyol., 31: 135 - 169.
- BIANCHI G., 1986. - Fichas FAO de Identificacao de Especies para Propositos comerciais. Guia de Campo para as Especies comerciais marinhas e de Aguas salobras de Angola. 184 p. Rome: FAO.
- WIRTZ P., FERREIRA C. E. L., FLOETER S. R., FRICKE R., GASPARINI J. L., IWAMOTO T., ROCHA L., SAMPAIO C. L. S. & SCHLIEWEN U. K., 2007. - Coastal fishes of Sao Tome and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (eastern Atlantic Ocean) - an update. Zootaxa, 1523: 1 - 48.
- BRITO A., 1991. - Catalogo de los Peces de las Islas Canarias. 230 p. La Laguna, Tenerife: F. Lemus Editor.