Aetheliparis Stein, 2012, new genus ...

• Main Author: Stein, David L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Scorpaeniformes; Liparidae; Aetheliparis; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6173236; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6173236

Aetheliparis new genus Type species. Psednos rossi Chernova & Stein 2004 Diagnosis. Vertebrae 47 or fewer, dorsal rays 44 or fewer, anal fin rays 35 or fewer. Mouth and lower jaw vertical or angled posteriorly. Spine straight, not curved, body not humped. Coronal pore absent. Gill cavity enlarged, its opening far posterior, completely anterior to pectoral fin base. Branchiostegal rays six, prominent, elongated, dorsally curved but generally horizontally oriented. Pectoral fins far posterior to head, supracleithrum and or cleithrum elongated to support posterior location of pectoral girdle low on side of body. Pleural ribs absent. Etymology. Aetheliparis, from the Greek, aethes-, strange, denoting the remarkable morphology of the head and pectoral girdle of the species of the genus, and liparis, the root of the family name. Species. The new genus includes two species: A. rossi (Chernova & Stein) and A. taurocanis n. sp. The latter is from New Zealand waters (Fig. 1). Distribution. North Atlantic (A. ... : Published as part of Stein, David L., 2012, A Review of the Snailfishes (Liparidae, Scorpaeniformes) of New Zealand, Including Descriptions of a New Genus and Sixteen New Species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 3588 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.283120 ...