Argyripnus atlanticus Maul 1952 ...

• Main Authors: Lima, Adriano T., Costa, Paulo A. S., Braga, Adriana C., Nunan, Gustavo W. A., Mincarone, Michael M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Stomiiformes; Sternoptychidae; Argyripnus; Argyripnus atlanticus; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6185419; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6185419

Argyripnus atlanticus Maul 1952 (Fig. 2 A) Material examined. 83 specimens: MNRJ 30126, 83(50.3–68.9 mm), D-0396. Diagnosis. Argyripnus atlanticus can be distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characters: head long (24.4–29.6% SL); eyes large (41.1–50.4% HL); anal-fin origin positioned at a vertical line that passes through base of first dorsal-fin ray; VAV+AC (46–51 photophores); posterior AC group (15– 18); IC (58–67); origin of posterior group of AC over or just beyond last anal-fin ray or just at the end of it; body height 21.2–26.7% SL. Meristic description. Fin rays: D 11–14; A 23–26; P 1 16–19. Gill rakers: 24–30 (6–8+2+16–20); Photophores: BR 6; IV1 6; IV2 10 –11; VAV+AC1 = 22–27; AC2 5; AC 3 15–18; AO 7. Distribution. Madeira Island, and south of Canary Islands in the eastern North Atlantic; west of Puerto Rico, Bahamas, and Caribbean Sea in the western Central Atlantic; Royal Charlotte Bank, Brazil, in the western South Atlantic (present record); and off Hawaii in the ... : Published as part of Lima, Adriano T., Costa, Paulo A. S., Braga, Adriana C., Nunan, Gustavo W. A. & Mincarone, Michael M., 2011, Fishes of the family Sternoptychidae (Stomiiformes) collected on the Brazilian continental slope between 11 ° and 23 ° S, pp. 34-48 in Zootaxa 2742 on page 38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.206673 ...