Aldrovandia affinis Gunther 1877

• Main Authors: Bañón, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Armesto, Ángeles, Barros-García, David, Carlos, Alejandro De
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Notacanthiformes; Halosauridae; Aldrovandia; Aldrovandia affinis; Austin; Pacific; Indian; Barros; Filatova; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6066564; https://zenodo.org/record/6066564

Aldrovandia affinis (Günther, 1877) Fig. 5. Halosaurus affinis, Günther 1877: 444. South of Japan, 34°N, 138°E, Challenger station 235, depth 565 fathoms. Syntypes: BMNH 1887.12.7.244-245 (2). McDowell 1973: 91 –101 (description, key); Maul 1976: 22 (description); Filatova 1985: 27 –29 (description), 33–34 (key); Sulak 1986a: 593 –598 (description, key); Mceachran & Fechhelm 1998: 210 –215 (description, key); Smith 2003 (key). FIGURE. 4 Halosaurus johnsonianus from the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, MHNUSC 25013- 2, 404 mm total length. Material examined . MHNUSC 25011- 1, 423 mm TL, 7th August 2011, Galicia Bank; 42º56.172'N— 11º55.816'W; 1,545 m depth; MHNUSC 25011- 2, 486 mm TL, 7th August 2011, Galicia Bank; 42º41.771'N— 11º33.647; 1,477 m depth; MHNUSC 25011- 3, 442 mm TL, 2th August 2011, Galicia Bank; 42º56.172'N—11º55.816; 1,545 m depth. Description. Body shape eel-like, moderately compressed, elongated and attenuated to the caudal peduncle; top of snout and head scaleless, opercle scaleless; the preoral portion of the snout is long, contained 2–2.2 times in the snout length; first ray of dorsal fin very short and spine-like; pectoral fin short and fairly broad, falling well short of origin of ventral fin; dorsal fin origin slightly posterior to pelvic fin origin; palatine tooth patch joined at midline; pyloric caeca black and vent white. The main morphometric and meristic characteristics are presented in Table 6. Habitat and distribution . Benthopelagic on the middle and lower slope (700–2,200 m), occurring primarily above the 4° C isotherm. Circumglobal at tropical and temperate latitudes. Eastern Atlantic, from Gulf of Biscay, Madeira to western Sahara, off South Africa; western Atlantic, from New England to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, off the Caribbean islands and South America; Indo-Pacific, in Zanzibar, Maldives, Taiwan, Japan, and eastern central Pacific (Froese & Sampang 2004; Yeh et al . 2006). FIGURE. 5 Aldrovandia affinis from the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, MHNUSC 25011- 2, 486 mm total length. : 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 479-482, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/165028 : {"references": ["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.", "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.", "Filatova, N. A. (1985) Halosaurus (Notacanthiformes) of the Indian Ocean. Journal of. Ichthyology, 25, 22 - 35.", "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.", "McEachran, J. D. & Fechhelm, J. D. (1998) Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico. Vol. 1. Myxiniformes to Gasterosteiformes. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1120 pp.", "Smith, D. G. (2003) Halosauridae. In: Carpenter, K. E. (Ed.), FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Bony fishes part 1 (Acipenseridae to Grammatidae). FAO, Rome, pp. 685 - 687.", "Froese, R. & Sampang, A. (2004) Preliminary annotated checklist of seamount fishes. In: Morato, T. & Pauly, D. (Eds.), Seamounts: Biodiversity and Fisheries. Fisheries Centre Research Report, 12, pp. 1 - 73.", "Yeh, H. M., Lee, M. Y. & Shao, K. T. (2006) Three New Records of Halosaurid Fishes (Pisces: Halosauridae) from the deep waters adjacent to Taiwan. Journal of the Fisheries Society of Taiwan, 33, 345 - 355."]}