Diagnoses and distribution of fifteen species recognized in genus Maurolicus Cocco (Sternoptychidae, Stomiiformes) with a key to their identification ...

• Main Authors: Parin, N.V., Kobyliansky, S. G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Société Française d'Ichtyologie 1996
• Subjects: Deep Sea fishes, Distribution, Maurolicus, Stemoptychidae, Taxonomy; Indian; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26028/cybium/1996-202-004; https://sfi-cybium.fr/fr/diagnoses-and-distribution-fifteen-species-recognized-genus-maurolicus-cocco-sternoptychidae

According to the recent revision (Parin and Kobyliansky, 1993), the genus Maurolicus contains fifteen allopatric species differing in combination of a few characters of which number of vertebrae, gill rakers and pectoral fin rays, head length, eye diameter, body depth and pigmentation of stomach and intestine are most important. M. muelleri (Gmelin) occurs only in the eastern North Atlantic. All other species also have restricted ranges in the Mediterranean Sea and adjacent Atlantic Ocean (M. amethystinopunctatus Cocco), western North and equatorial Atlantic (M. weitzmani Parin & Kobyliansky), western South Atlantic (M. stehmanni Parin & Kobyliansky), central South Atlantic at Discovery seamount (M. inventionis Parin & Kobyliansky), eastern South Atlantic and western South Indian Ocean (M. walvisensis Parin & Kobyliansky), western tropical Indian Ocean at Saya de Malha Bank (M. kornilovorum Parin & Kobyliansky), Red Sea (M. mucronatus Klunzinger), eastern tropical Indian Ocean and Coral ...