A Review of the Morid Fish Genus Lepidion of the North Atlantic With First Records of Lepidion eques from the Western North Atlantic
Seventeen specimens of Lepidion eques (Günther) taken by the Fisheries Research Board of Canada St. John's, Nfld., Biological Station are apparently the first records of the species from the western Atlantic west of West Greenland. Comparison with specimens from the northeast Atlantic shows som...
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crcansciencepubl:10.1139/f70-054 2024-06-23T07:53:21+00:00 A Review of the Morid Fish Genus Lepidion of the North Atlantic With First Records of Lepidion eques from the Western North Atlantic Templeman, Wilfred 1970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f70-054 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f70-054 en eng Canadian Science Publishing http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/page/about/CorporateTextAndDataMining Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada volume 27, issue 3, page 457-498 ISSN 0015-296X journal-article 1970 crcansciencepubl https://doi.org/10.1139/f70-054 2024-05-24T13:05:52Z Seventeen specimens of Lepidion eques (Günther) taken by the Fisheries Research Board of Canada St. John's, Nfld., Biological Station are apparently the first records of the species from the western Atlantic west of West Greenland. Comparison with specimens from the northeast Atlantic shows some differences in averages of meristic and morphometric characters, but with overlapping ranges in these characters.Comparison of these North Atlantic L. eques with the Mediterranean Lepidion lepidion (Risso) revealed that although closely related, these species are separable on the bases of the smaller orbit diameter in relation to the head length and especially by the relatively larger postorbital length in L. lepidion. Lepidion guentheri (Giglioli) is distinctly different from these two species in some meristic and many morphometric characters. Lectotypes of L. eques and L. guentheri are designated. Various incorrect or doubtful records of Lepidion are discussed. Two giant lepidions reported recently from the northeast Atlantic as L. guentheri are tentatively assigned to Lepidion schmidti Svetovidov, a species hitherto known only from Japan.The distributions of the North Atlantic species of Lepidion are discussed and information is provided on sexual maturity. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland North Atlantic Northeast Atlantic Canadian Science Publishing Canada Greenland Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 27 3 457 498 |
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Seventeen specimens of Lepidion eques (Günther) taken by the Fisheries Research Board of Canada St. John's, Nfld., Biological Station are apparently the first records of the species from the western Atlantic west of West Greenland. Comparison with specimens from the northeast Atlantic shows some differences in averages of meristic and morphometric characters, but with overlapping ranges in these characters.Comparison of these North Atlantic L. eques with the Mediterranean Lepidion lepidion (Risso) revealed that although closely related, these species are separable on the bases of the smaller orbit diameter in relation to the head length and especially by the relatively larger postorbital length in L. lepidion. Lepidion guentheri (Giglioli) is distinctly different from these two species in some meristic and many morphometric characters. Lectotypes of L. eques and L. guentheri are designated. Various incorrect or doubtful records of Lepidion are discussed. Two giant lepidions reported recently from the northeast Atlantic as L. guentheri are tentatively assigned to Lepidion schmidti Svetovidov, a species hitherto known only from Japan.The distributions of the North Atlantic species of Lepidion are discussed and information is provided on sexual maturity. |
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Templeman, Wilfred A Review of the Morid Fish Genus Lepidion of the North Atlantic With First Records of Lepidion eques from the Western North Atlantic |
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A Review of the Morid Fish Genus Lepidion of the North Atlantic With First Records of Lepidion eques from the Western North Atlantic |
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A Review of the Morid Fish Genus Lepidion of the North Atlantic With First Records of Lepidion eques from the Western North Atlantic |
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A Review of the Morid Fish Genus Lepidion of the North Atlantic With First Records of Lepidion eques from the Western North Atlantic |
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A Review of the Morid Fish Genus Lepidion of the North Atlantic With First Records of Lepidion eques from the Western North Atlantic |
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A Review of the Morid Fish Genus Lepidion of the North Atlantic With First Records of Lepidion eques from the Western North Atlantic |
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review of the morid fish genus lepidion of the north atlantic with first records of lepidion eques from the western north atlantic |
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