Aldrovandia phalacra 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; Aldrovandia; Aldrovandia phalacra; Greenland; Pacific; Indian; Barros; Filatova; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6066567; https://zenodo.org/record/6066567

Aldrovandia phalacra (Vaillant, 1888) Fig. 6. Halosaurus phalacrus, Vaillant [L. L.] 1888: 185, Pl. 15 (fig. 3), 16 (figs. 1-1c). Morocco, 1,103–2,190 m; Sudan, 1,250–1,435 m; Azores, 37°35'N, 29°26'W, 1,442–2,220 m. Lectotype: MNHN 1885-0382. McDowell 1973: 91 –92 (key), 105–114 (description); Filatova 1985: 27 –29 (description), 33–34 (key); Sulak 1986a: 593 –598 (description, key); Sulak 1986b: 196 –197 (description, key); Maul 1976: 20 –22 (description); Smith 2003 (key). Material examined . MHNUSC 25014- 1, 190 mm TL, 7th August 2011, Galicia Bank; 42º41.771'N— 011º33.647'W; 1,536 m depth; MHNUSC 25012- 2, 330 mm TL, 6th August 2011, Galicia Bank; 42º41.771'N— 11º33.647'W; 1,477 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 short, contained 3.8 and 4.7 times in the snout length; first dorsal ray very short and vestigial; pelvic fins lie well in advance of dorsal origin; palatine tooth patches separate; pyloric caeca black and anal opening white surrounded by a dark field. The main morphometric and meristic characteristics are presented in Table 7. Habitat and distribution . Benthopelagic between 500–2,300 m depth. Circumglobal, mainly at tropical and temperate latitudes. Eastern Atlantic, from the Gulf of Biscay to Guinea and off South Africa; western Atlantic from Greenland, New England, USA to Bahamas and off southern Brazil; eastern Pacific, in Hawaii and Chile (Froese & Sampang 2004; Yeh et al . 2006). : 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 page 482, 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.", "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.", "Sulak, K. J. (1986 b) Halosauridae. In: Smith, M. M. & Heemstra, P. C. (Eds.), Smith's sea fishes. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, pp. 196 - 197.", "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.", "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."]}