Himantolophus litoceras Stewart & Pietsch, 2010, new species ...

• Main Authors: Stewart, Andrew L., Pietsch, Theodore W.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Lophiiformes; Himantolophidae; Himantolophus; Himantolophus litoceras; North Cape
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6197495; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6197495

Himantolophus litoceras new species Figures 1, 2, 3 Holotype. NMNZ P. 042004, female, 276 mm SL (263 mm SL preserved), F/V Seamount Explorer, Station OBS 2170/130, South Cavalli Seamount, east of North Cape, North Island, New Zealand, 34º12.0'–14.0'S, 175º05.0'–07.0'E, bottom trawl, 654 m, collected by Ted Turton, MFish Scientific Observer, 7 November 2005. Diagnosis. Metamorphosed females of Himantolophus litoceras differ from those of other members of the H. cornifer -group in having a pair of simple distal escal appendages, each lacking any trace of lateral appendages or filaments. It further differs in having the following combination of character states: length of illicium 31.1% SL (28.2% preserved); width of escal bulb 11.9% SL (10.5% preserved); illicium and esca without filaments; illicium, esca, and proximal one-half of distal escal appendage covered with tiny, close-set dermal spinules; distal escal appendages darkly pigmented, tip of intact filament silvery white in freshly thawed specimen. ... : Published as part of Stewart, Andrew L. & Pietsch, Theodore W., 2010, A new species of deep-sea anglerfish, genus Himantolophus (Lophiiformes: Himantolophidae) from the Western South Pacific, with comments on the validity of H. pseudalbinares, pp. 53-60 in Zootaxa 2671 on pages 54-59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.199134 ...