Echelus pachyrhynchus
Description
Material examined. - TFMCVP /01581, 410 mm TL, 16°09’N 23°06’W, Ponta do Sol, Boa Vista Island, 295‑299 m, cruise Cabo Verde 2005‑06, sta. 1/3, soft bottom, 5 Jun. 2005, BT; MMF 36366, 465 mm TL, 15°56’N 22°42’W, Ponta Medronha, Boa Vista Island, 210 m, cruise Cabo Verde 2005‑06, sta. 73, soft bottom, 9 Jun. 2005, SFST; TFMCVP/01582, 465 mm TL, 15°52’N 22°46’W, S of Ponta do Roque, Boa Vista Island, 240 m, cruise Cabo Verde 2005‑ 06, sta. 90, soft bottom, 10 Jun. 2005, SFST.
Additional material. - 10 specimens, 407‑513 mm TL, caught on soft bottoms, with certainty between 175 m and 460 m depth, from off São Vicente, Boa Vista and Santiago islands, cruises Cabo Verde 2005‑06 and Cabo Verde 2010‑ 04.
Remarks. - A deep-water bathydemersal species burrowing in sand or mud on the upper‑slope at a 200‑500 m depth range (Leiby, 1990; Froese and Pauly, 2014). Known from the eastern Atlantic, from Morocco to Angola and central Namibia (Bianchi et al., 1993; Froese and Pauly, 2014), including the Cape Verde Islands (Leiby, 1990; Reiner, 1996, 2005; Froese and Pauly, 2014). Although the present material was caught in both traps, 76% occurred in bottom traps, therefore confirming its demersal nature. The 513 mm TL specimen is apparently the largest of this species ever recorded (485 mm TL: Leiby, 1990).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.26028/cybium/2014-384-007 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/13617414 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/EC02FFBEFFD9F53AFF931316FFBE0A48 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/103B87C6FFDBF538FCC11032FB660C3A (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MMF , SFST
- Material sample ID
- TFMCVP/01582
- Event date
- 2005-06-05 , 2005-06-09 , 2005-06-10
- Verbatim event date
- 2005-06-05 , 2005-06-09 , 2005-06-10
- Scientific name authorship
- Vaillant
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Echelus
- Species
- pachyrhynchus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echelus pachyrhynchus (Vaillant, 1888) sec. González, Martins, Santana, Triay-Portella, Monteiro, García-Martín, Jiménez, González-Lorenzo, Pajuelo, Lorenzo & Biscoito, 2014
References
- VAILLANT L., 1888. - Poissons. In: Expeditions scientifiques du ' Travailleur' et du ' Talisman' pendant les annees 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883. 406 p., pl. 1 - 28. Paris: Masson.
- LEIBY M., 1990. - Ophichthidae. In: Check-List of the Fishes of the Eastern Tropical Atlantic (Clofeta), Vol. 1 (Quero J. C., Hureau J. C., Karrer C., Post A. & Saldanha L., eds), pp. 176 - 192. Lisbon: JNICT; Paris: SEI; and Paris: UNESCO.
- FROESE R. & PAULY D. (eds), 2014. - FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www. fishbase. org, version (Aug. 2014).
- BIANCHI G., CARPENTER K. E., ROUX J. P., MOLLOY F. J., BOYER D. & BOYER H. J., 1993. - FAO Species Identification Field Guide for Fishery Purposes. The Living Marine Resources of Namibia. 250 p. Rome: FAO.
- REINER F., 1996. - Catalogo dos peixes do Arquipelago de Cabo Verde. Publ. Avulsas IPIMAR, 2: 1 - 339.
- REINER F., 2005. - Peixes do Arquipelago de Cabo Verde. 340 p. Mindelo: Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas, Republica de Cabo Verde.