Abyssobrotula Nielsen 1977

• Main Authors: Ohashi, Shinpei, Nielsen, Jørgen G.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Ophidiiformes; Ophidiidae; Abyssobrotula; Pacific; Indian; New Zealand; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6063880; https://zenodo.org/record/6063880

Abyssobrotula Nielsen, 1977 Abyssobrotula Nielsen, 1977: 41, type species Abyssobrotula galatheae Nielsen, 1977 (type locality: Kermadec Trench, New Zealand). Abyssobrotula : Cohen & Nielsen 1978: 24, fig. 34; Shcherbachev 1980: 114; Shcherbachev & Tsinovsky 1980: 55; Machida 1989: 23; Nielsen et al . 1999: 50, fig. 45. Diagnosis. This diagnosis is a slightly modified version of the one from Nielsen et al . (1999) due to the establishing of a new species. An ophidiid genus characterized by the following combination of characters: Body compressed and short head with a downward inflection, swollen snout, inferior mouth long, its posterior margin extending well behind small eye, body and head fully scaled, two median and a pair of basibranchial tooth patches, dorsal-fin rays 97–116, anal-fin rays 76 –96, 10– 15 pectoral-fin rays extending beyond anus, pelvic-fin rays 2, long rakers 8–11 on anterior gill arch, precaudal vertebrae 17–20, total vertebrae 67–75. : Published as part of Ohashi, Shinpei & Nielsen, Jørgen G., 2016, A new species of Abyssobrotula (Ophidiiformes, Ophidiidae) from the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, pp. 559-566 in Zootaxa 4132 (4) on page 560, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4132.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/257639 : {"references": ["Nielsen, J. G. (1977) The deepest living fish Abyssobrotula galatheae a new genus and species of oviparous ophidioids (Pisces, Brotulidae). Galathea Report, 14, 41 - 48.", "Cohen, D. M. & Nielsen, J. G. (1978) Guide to the identification of genera of the fish order Ophidiiformes with a tentative classification of the order. NOAA Technical Report NMFS Circular, 417, 1 - 72. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 63242", "Shcherbachev, Y. N. & Tsinovsky, V. D. (1980) New finds of deep-sea brotulids Abyssobrotula galatheae Nielsen, Acanthonus armatus Gunther and Typhlonus nasus Gunther (Pisces, Ophidioidei) in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Bulletin of the Society of the Naturalists of Moscow, Biological Section, New Series, 85, 53 - 58.", "Machida, Y. (1989) Record of Abyssobrotula galatheae (Ophidiidae: Ophidiiformes) from the Izu-Bonin Trench, Japan. Bulletin of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, Kochi University, 11, 23 - 25.", "Nielsen, J. G., Cohen, D. M., Markle, D. F. & Robins, C. R. (1999) FAO species catalogue. Vol. 18. Ophidiiform fishes of the world (Order Ophidiiformes). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eel, brotulas and other ophidiiform fishes known to date. FAO, Rome, 178 pp."]}