Macrourus caml Mcmillan, Iwamoto, Stewart & Smith, 2012, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Mcmillan, Peter, Iwamoto, Tomio, Stewart, Andrew, Smith, Peter J
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Gadiformes; Macrouridae; Macrourus; Macrourus caml; Antarc*; Antarctica; IPY; Ross Dependency; Ross Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5628293; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5628293

Macrourus caml sp. nov. Caml grenadier Macrourus whitsoni (in part not Regan 1913): Trunov & Konstantinov, 1989: 54–65 (97 specimens, description, compared with M. carinatus, in Russian, English summary). Marriott et al., 2003: 39–41 (364 specimens, Ross Dependency). Diagnosis. Ventral surface of the head mostly scaled, except for scaleless areas anterior to the mouth and on the anterior half of the lower jaw. Pelvic fin with 8 rays, rarely 7 or 9. Lower jaw with 2–3 rows of small pointed uniform-sized teeth reducing to a single row posteriorly. Upper jaw with 4–5 rows of small, uniform-sized teeth. Body scales small, 30–40 in a diagonal row from anal fin origin to lateral line. Pyloric caeca 20–37. Specimens examined. Holotype. NMNZ P.043633 (123 mm HL, 589+ mm TL), Ross Sea slope, Antarctica, 72º 21' S, 175º 33' E, 945–952 m, RV Tangaroa, IPY/ CAML TAN 0802/121, bottom trawl, 21 Feb 2008. Paratypes (33). AMS I.45750-001 ex NMNZ P.037602 (102 mm HL, 456 mm TL), Ross Sea slope, 73º 56' S, 176º 53' W, ... : Published as part of Mcmillan, Peter, Iwamoto, Tomio, Stewart, Andrew & Smith, Peter J, 2012, A new species of grenadier, genus Macrourus (Teleostei, Gadiformes, Macrouridae) from the southern hemisphere and a revision of the genus, pp. 1-24 in Zootaxa 3165 on pages 4-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.279731 ...