Published December 31, 2014 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Sphagemacrurus hirundo

Description

Sphagemacrurus hirundo (Collett, 1896)

Material examined. - MMF 42815, partially damaged, 180 mm PDL, 160 mm HL, 15°08’N 23°47’W, Ribeira da Barca, Santiago Island, 268‑292, cruise Camarão‑1, sta. 8‑D2, rocky bottom, 27 Nov 2011, BT.

Remarks. - A benthopelagic deep-water species found between 873 m and 2330 m depth (Merrett and Domanski, 1985; Geistdoerfer, 1990). An eastern Atlantic species mostly known from insular areas and adjacent seamounts: the Azores (Collett, 1896, holotype), Madeira (Geistdoerfer, 1986), the Canaries (Merrett and Domanski, 1985) and the Cape Verde Islands (Maio Island) (Roule, 1919). Also present in the Bay of Cadiz (Nybelin, 1948). This is the southernmost record for the species.

Notes

Published as part of González, José A., Martins, Albertino, Santana, José I., Triay-Portella, Raül, Monteiro, Carlos, García-Martín, Verónica, Jiménez, Sebastián, González-Lorenzo, Gustavo, Pajuelo, José G., Lorenzo, José M. & Biscoito, Manuel, 2014, New and rare records of teleost fishes from the Cape Verde Islands (eastern-central Atlantic Ocean), pp. 289-300 in Cybium 38 (4) on page 295, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2014-384-007, http://zenodo.org/record/13617414

Files

Files (1.1 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:4d6022590ce7053b9ffcc712bd25082c
1.1 kB Download

System files (11.4 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:f29ee32e1c79d1a4834ef117bb2394c6
11.4 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

References

  • COLLETT R., 1896. - Poissons provenant des campagnes du yacht l'Hirondelle (1885 - 1888). Resultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert 1 er, Prince Souverain de Monaco, fasc. X, 198 p. Monaco.
  • MERRETT N. G. & DOMANSKI P. A., 1985. - Observations on the Ecology of Deep-Sea Bottom-Living Fishes Collected off Northwest Africa: II. The Moroccan Slope (27 ° - 34 ° N), with Special Reference to Synaphobranchus kaupi. Biol. Oceanogr., 3 (4): 349 - 399.
  • GEISTDOERFER P., 1990. - Macrouridae. In: Check-List of the Fishes of the Eastern Tropical Atlantic (Clofeta), Vol. 2 (Quero J. C., Hureau J. C., Karrer C., Post A. & Saldanha L., eds), pp. 541 - 563. Lisbon: JNICT; Paris: SEI; and Paris: UNESCO.
  • GEISTDOERFER P., 1986. - Macrouridae. In: Fishes of the North-Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Vol. 2 (Whitehead P. J. P., Bauchot M. L., Hureau J. C., Nielsen J. & Tortonese E., eds), pp. 644 - 676. Paris: UNESCO.
  • ROULE L., 1919. - Poissons provenant des campagnes du yacht " Princesse-Alice " (1891 - 1903) et du yacht " Hirondelle II " (1914). Resultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert 1 er, Prince Souverain de Monaco, 52: 1 - 191.
  • NYBELIN O., 1948. - Fishes collected by the " Skagerak " expedition in the eastern Atlantic 1946. Goteborgs Kungliga Vetensk. - och Vitterh. - Samh. Handl., Ser. B, 5 (16): 1 - 95.