Cryptopsaras couesii Gill 1883
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Description
Cryptopsaras couesii Gill, 1883
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Cryptopsaras couesii Gill, 1883:284 (type locality: off New York, U.S.A., western North Atlantic, 1686 fathoms [3083 m]). Pietsch, 2009:329.
Material. HUMZ 194454 (1, 115 mm SL, female), st. 91, 3°37.5'N, 94°53.4'E, 3°37.3'N, 94°54.9'E, 760–769 m, off Sumatra, 29 Jun. 2005.
Description. Dorsal-fin rays 4; pectoral-fin rays 15; anal-fin rays 4; caudal-fin rays 8. Teeth on vomer 7 (4 on right side, 3 on left side). Head length 31.4% SL; head depth 34.8; head width 13.3; illicial length 2.7; upper jaw length 20.1; lower jaw length 22.3.
Body slightly elongate, compressed, oval in lateral view. Mouth nearly vertical when closed. Sphenotic spines absent. Illicium very short, mostly hidden by esca. Three club-shaped caruncles just anterior to origin of dorsal-fin. Skin covered by tiny close-set dermal spines. Uniformly dark brown, inter-radial membranes of all fins transparent.
Distribution. Widespread in all three major oceans. Our specimen represents the first record from Indonesia.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ceratiidae
- Genus
- Cryptopsaras
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lophiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gill
- Species
- couesii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cryptopsaras couesii Gill, 1883 sec. Ho, Kawai & Amaoka, 2016
References
- Gill, T. N. (1883) Deep-sea fishing fishes. The American Sportman's Journal, 21, 284.
- Pietsch, T. W. (2009) Oceanic anglerfishes. Extraordinary diversity in the Deep Sea. University of California Press, Oakland, 557 pp.