Luciobrotula Smith & Radcliffe 1913

• Main Authors: Wong, Man-Kwan, Lee, Mao-Ying, Chen, Wei-Jen
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Ophidiiformes; Ophidiidae; Luciobrotula; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4773711; https://zenodo.org/record/4773711

Key to all known species of Luciobrotula Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 (modified from Nielsen 2009) 1. Precaudal vertebrae 13; total vertebrae 50 or 51............................................................................... 2 – Precaudal vertebrae 15 or 16; total vertebrae 52–57......................................................................... 3 2. Lateral line ending at 2 nd dorsal-fin ray; total gill rakers 13–14...................................................................................................................................................... L. brasiliensis Nielsen, 2009 (off Brazil) – Lateral line ending at 33 rd dorsal-fin ray; total gill rakers 17................................................................................................................................................... L. polylepis sp. nov. (off Papua New Guinea) 3. Lateral line short and distinct, ending at 2 nd dorsal-fin ray.... L. lineata (Gosline, 1954) (off Hawaii) – Lateral line long, usually indistinct, ending at 19 th –37 th dorsal-fin ray.............................................. 4 4. Dorsal-fin rays 81–89;anal-fin rays59–65;first gill arch with3developed rakers and 18–23dentigerous plates; longest filaments on first gill arch 2.8–3.6% SL......... L. coheni Nielsen, 2009 (East Pacific) – Dorsal-fin rays 86–96; anal-fin rays 66–75; first gill arch with 3–4 developed rakers and 12–18 dentigerous plates; longest filaments on fist gill arch 1.3–2.7% SL.................................................. 5 5. Four occipital pores, one interorbital pore; first anal-fin ray below 18 th –24 th dorsal-fin rays; dorsal rim of otolith without concavity (large specimens)................................................................................................................................................ L. bartschi Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 (Indo-West Pacific) – Pores absent on occipital and interorbital region; first anal-fin ray below 24 th –28 th dorsal-fin rays; dorsal rim of otolith with or without concavity................................................................................. 6 6. Head brown; otolith with a distinct concavity in dorsal rim in specimens larger than 300 mm SL; total vertebrae 56–57; longest pelvic-fin ray 7.9–9.6% SL..................................................................................................................... L. corethromycter Cohen, 1964 (Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea) – Head pale; otolith without a distinct concavity in dorsal rim in specimens larger than 300 mm SL; total vertebrae 53–55; longest pelvic-fin ray 11.0–12.5% SL.................................................................................................................................................... L. nolfi Cohen, 1981 (tropical East Atlantic) : Published as part of Wong, Man-Kwan, Lee, Mao-Ying & Chen, Wei-Jen, 2021, Integrative taxonomy reveals a rare and new cusk-eel species of Luciobrotula (Teleostei, Ophidiidae) from the Solomon Sea, West Pacific, pp. 52-69 in European Journal of Taxonomy 750 on page 64, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.750.1361, http://zenodo.org/record/4770536 : {"references": ["Radcliffe L. 1913. Descriptions of seven new genera and thirty-one new species of fishes of the families Brotulidae and Carapidae from the Philippine Islands and the Dutch East Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 44 (1948): 135 - 176. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.44 - 1948.135", "Nielsen J. G. 2009. A revision of the bathyal genus Luciobrotula (Teleostei, Ophidiidae) with two new species. Galathea Report 22: 141 - 156.", "Cohen D. M. 1964. A review of the ophidioid fish genus Luciobrotula with the description of a new species from the western North Atlantic. Bulletin of Marine Science 14 (3): 387 - 398.", "Cohen D. M. 1981. New and rare ophidiiform fishes from the eastern Atlantic: Canary Islands to the Cape of Good Hope. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94 (4): 1085 - 1103."]}