Sigmops bathyphilus ...

• Main Authors: Villarins, Bárbara T., Dario, Fabio Di, Eduardo, Leandro N., Lucena-Frédou, Flávia, Bertrand, Arnaud, Prokofiev, Artem M., Mincarone, Michael M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Stomiiformes; Gonostomatidae; Sigmops; Sigmops bathyphilus; Greenland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12720185; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12720185

Sigmops bathyphilus (Vaillant, 1884) (Fig. 4D) Diagnosis. Sigmops bathyphilus can be distinguished from congeners by the presence of adipose fin; anal-fin origin in line with dorsal-fin origin; 10–14 pectoral-fin rays; 11–15 dorsal-fin rays; 7–9 pelvic-fin rays; 21–26 anal-fin rays; 28–32 gill rakers; no photophores on isthmus; two rows (lateral and ventral) of minute and obscure photophores; IC 32–38; OA 14–16, in an irregular row (Grey, 1964; Mukhacheva, 1972; Kenaley, Stewart, 2015c; Coad, 2018a). Geographical distribution. Circumglobal between 70ºN and 45ºS, except the western Indian Ocean (Grey, 1964; Schaefer et al., 1986a; Pequeño, 1989; Hutchins, 2001; Møller et al., 2010; Kenaley, Stewart, 2015c; Béarez et al., 2017; Sutton et al., 2020). In the western Atlantic, the species is reported from off Greenland, Canada, United States, the Bermudas and the Caribbean Sea, and off Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil (Mukhacheva, 1972; Grey, 1964; Harold, 2003; Moore et al., 2003; Costa, Mincarone, 2010; Møller et ... : Published as part of Villarins, Bárbara T., Dario, Fabio Di, Eduardo, Leandro N., Lucena-Frédou, Flávia, Bertrand, Arnaud, Prokofiev, Artem M. & Mincarone, Michael M., 2022, Deep-sea dragonfishes (Teleostei: Stomiiformes) collected from off northeastern Brazil, with a review of the species reported from the Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone, pp. 1-78 in Neotropical Ichthyology (e 220004) (e 220004) 20 (2) on page 14, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-2022-0004, http://zenodo.org/record/13350377 ...