Halosaurus johnsonianus Vaillant 1888

• Main Authors: Bañón, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Armesto, Ángeles, Barros-García, David, Carlos, Alejandro De
• Format: Text
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• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Notacanthiformes; Halosauridae; Halosaurus; Halosaurus johnsonianus; Barros; Harrisson; Porcupine Seabight; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6066563; https://zenodo.org/record/6066563

Halosaurus johnsonianus Vaillant, 1888 Fig. 4. Halosaurus johnsonianus Vaillant [L. L.] 1888: 181, Pl. 15 (figs. 2-2d). Off western Sahara, 23°50'N, 17°17'W, depth 1,139 meters. Lectotype: MNHN 1885-0361. McDowell 1973: 56 –57 (key); Harrisson 1972: 254; Maul 1976: 20 (description); Sulak 1986a: 593 –598 (description, key); Sulak 1990: 131. Material examined . MHNUSC 25013- 1, 354 mm TL, 19th July 2009, Le Danois Bank; 43º55.22'N—4º47.92'W; 1,198 m depth; MHNUSC 25013- 2, 404 mm TL, 19th July 2009, Le Danois Bank; 43º55.22'N—4º47.92'W; 1,198 m depth. Description. Body shape eel-like, moderately compressed, elongated and attenuated to the caudal peduncle; body very slender, its greatest depth is contained 2.8–3.1 times in the head length; top and sides of head scaled nearly to tip of snout; opercle scaled; lateral line scales only slightly enlarged, forming a dark band; gill rakers longer than opposite gill laminae; pyloric caeca very short and black. The main morphometric and meristic characteristics are presented in Table 5. Habitat and distribution . Benthopelagic, between 680–2,100 m depth and 4–11ºC. Eastern Atlantic, from the Porcupine Seabight, Portugal and southern Spain to Mauritania including the Azores, Cape Verde, and Canary Islands (Maul 1976; Sulak 1990; Priede et al . 2010) : Published as part of Bañón, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Armesto, Ángeles, Barros-García, David & Carlos, Alejandro De, 2016, Halosaur fishes (Notacanthiformes: Halosauridae) from Atlantic Spanish waters according to integrative taxonomy, pp. 471-490 in Zootaxa 4184 (3) on pages 478-479, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/165028 : {"references": ["Vaillant, L. L. (1888) Expeditions scientifiques du \" Travailleur \" et du \" Talisman \" pendant les annees 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883. Poissons. G. Masson, Paris, 406 pp.", "McDowell, B. C. (1973) Family Halosauridae. In: Cohen, D. M. (Ed.), Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Memoirs of the Sears Foundation of Marine Research, New Haven, pp. 32 - 123.", "Harrisson, C. M. H. (1972) Halosauridae of the North Eastern Atlantic (Pisces, Teleostei, Notacanthiformes). Bulletin du Museum national d'histoire naturelle (Zoologie), 40, 553 - 560. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00288330.1974.9515526", "Maul, G. E. (1976) The fishes taken in bottom trawls by R. V. ' Meteor' during the 1967 seamounts cruises in the northeast Atlantic. Meteor Forschungsergebnisse, 22, 1 - 69.", "Sulak, K. J. (1986 a) Halosauridae. In: Whitehead, P. J. P. Bauchot, M. - L. Hureau, J. - C. Nielsen, J. & Tortonese, E. (Eds.), Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris, pp. 593 - 598.", "Sulak, K. J. (1990) Halosauridae. In: Quero, J. C. Hureau, J. C., Karrer, C. Post, A. & Saldanha, L. (Eds.), Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA), UNESCO, JNICT & SEI, Lisboa, Paris, pp. 126 - 132.", "Priede, I. G., Godbold, J. A., King, N. J., Collins, M. A., Bailey, D. M. & Gordon, J. D. M. (2010) Deep-sea demersal fish species richness in the Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic Ocean: global and regional patterns. Marine Ecology, 31, 247 - 260. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1439 - 0485.2009.00330. x"]}