Lophotus cristatus Bonelli 1820
Zu cristatus (Bonelli, 1820) — TRACHIPTERIDAE Scalloped ribbonfish (En); Listoncillo festón (Sp) (Figure 4, Tables 1 and 5) Material examined. 1 specimen (UCR 2058.001); juvenile, 203 mm TL, 184 mm SL, collected 35 Km off of Punta Zapotal, Golfo de Papagayo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, eastern Pacific O...
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| Summary: | Zu cristatus (Bonelli, 1820) — TRACHIPTERIDAE Scalloped ribbonfish (En); Listoncillo festón (Sp) (Figure 4, Tables 1 and 5) Material examined. 1 specimen (UCR 2058.001); juvenile, 203 mm TL, 184 mm SL, collected 35 Km off of Punta Zapotal, Golfo de Papagayo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, eastern Pacific Ocean, 10° 40' 15.91" N, 85° 58' 48.08" W, on 20 July 1988, by Frank Cedeño on board of the Nisshin Maru vessel, with bottom trawl, at a depth of 316– 322 m. Diagnostic characters. A member of Trachipteridae in congruence with the diagnostic characters listed for the family in Heemstra & Kannemeyer (1984, 1986b), Bauchot (1995), Olney (2003d) and Nelson (2006). Generic and specific diagnostic characters are listed below, all in accordance with descriptions of specimens by Tortonese (1958), Fitch (1964), Roig & Demestre (1982), Heemstra & Kannemeyer (1984), Charter & Moser (1996a), Bianco et al. (2006), Psomadakis et al. (2007) and Kweon (2009). Ventral portion of tail covered by spiny plates (vs. smooth, not covered by spiny plates in species of Desmodema ); caudal fin divided in two lobes (vs. not divided in two lobes in species of Desmodema ); dorsal-fin rays 121 (vs. usually 145–185 in species of Trachipterus ); lateral line as a zigzag series of elongate spiny plates (vs. straight, usually as a series of oval spiny plates in species of Trachipterus ); ventral edge of body scalloped (vs. straight in species of Trachipterus ) and without bony tubercles (with bony tubercles in species of Trachipterus ); eye length about 13% of snout-vent length (vs. 9–10% in Z. elongatus Heemstra & Kannemeyer, 1984); maximum body depth 19% of SL (vs. 9–10% in Z. elongatus ); lateral line plates about 100 (vs. 126–130 in Z. elongatus ). Description. Measurements and counts, as well as comparative data, are presented in Table 5. Body elongate, ribbon-like, compressed, covered with small, very deciduous, thin, cycloid scales (most body scales are missing, but the scale pockets are distinct; a few scales were left on the anterior portion of the body and the tail, mainly near the lateral line). Dorsal profile almost vertical on head and curved on back, becoming straight along the tail; ventral profile scalloped between the pelvic-fin bases and the beginning of the tail, being straight from there to the caudal fin; tail thin and relatively long. Maximum body depth just posterior to pelvic-fin base. Head length about 36% of snout-vent length; snout length about equal to eye diameter; end of maxilla anterior to center of the orbit. Dorsal-fin origin posterior to middle of the orbit; first dorsal-fin rays short, not elongated, subsequent rays longer, with the maximum height of fin over and behind the anus; pectoral fins low, their origin anterior to pelvic-fin origin and their base horizontally oriented, allowing the fin to be nearly vertically oriented when addressed against the body; pelvic fins represented by six rudimentary spiny nubbins; caudal fin divided into two lobes, the upper lobe slightly upturned, with nine rays, the lower lobe represented by a single rudimentary spiny nubbin. Color in live not recorded. Color in alcohol (see Figure 4) light brown, with the median and ventral portions of head, the nuchal region, around and below the pectoral-fin base and the abdomen darker; without well-defined spots or bars on body but a dark streak evident on back along the dorsal-fin base, running out to the caudal-fin base. Remarks. Prior to Heemstra & Kannemeyer’s (1984) review of the Trachipteridae from South African waters, the genus Zu was considered monotypic. In their review, these authors described Z. elongatus and discussed characteristics regarding to the juvenile and adult life stages in the generic diagnosis for both Z. cristatus and Z. elongatus . Currently Z. elongatus is restricted to the southeastern Atlantic, western Indian and southwestern Pacific Oceans (Heemstra & Kannemeyer 1984, Froese & Pauly 2016). As noted above, both species ( Z. cristatus and Z. elongatus ) can be clearly separated by differences in several meristic and morphometric characters. Although Z. cristatus has, possibly, a global distribution (Gaither et al. 2015), in the eastern Pacific Ocean there are no published records between the USA-northern Mexico coasts (Miller & Lea 1972, Eschmeyer & Herald 1983, Charter & Moser 1996a, d), including the Gulf of California (Aceves-Medina et al. 2003, Avendaño-Ibarra et al. 2014), and the Peru-Chile coasts (Pequeño 1989, 2011, Chirichigno & Vélez 1998, Kweon 2009), with the exception of a single report for the Galapagos Islands (McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010). 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