Microstoma australis Gon & Stewart, 2014, new species

• Main Authors: Gon, Ofer, Stewart, Andrew L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Osmeriformes; Microstomatidae; Microstoma; Microstoma australis; Campbell Island; Campbell Plateau; New Zealand; Pukaki; Pukaki Rise; Sprightly; Snares Islands
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5616735; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5616735

Microstoma australis, new species (Figures 1 a–c; Table 1) Holotype. AMS I. 27328 -002, 140.5 mm, Australia, New South Wales, off Cape Hawke (32 ° 19 ’S, 152 ° 59 ’E), midwater trawl, 0–366 m, FRV Kapala, 13 August 1985. Paratypes. AMS I. 21749 -001, 50.2 mm, Australia, New South Wales, east of Jarvis Bay (35 °02’S, 152 ° 48 ’E), midwater trawl, 0–210 m, CSIRO RV Sprightly, 26 October 1979. AMS I. 21770 -001, 35.0 mm, Australia, New South Wales, east of Tuross Heads (36 °04'S, 152 ° 45 'E), midwater trawl, 0–152 m, CSIRO RV Courageous, 3 December 1978. NMNZ P. 11011, 69.15 mm, New Zealand, Chatham Rise, off Cape Palliser, southern Hikurangi Trench (41 ° 55.100 'S, 175 ° 44.925 'E), midwater trawl, 0–210 m, RV James Cook, 27 June 1975. NMNZ P. 39873, 221.7 mm, New Zealand, Campbell Plateau, NE off Campbell Island (52 ° 6.750 'S, 171 ° 0.250 'E), midwater trawl, 0–493 m, FV Alexander Buryachenko, 13 September 2003. NMNZ P. 46668, 266.2 mm, New Zealand, Snares Islands, Pukaki Rise (49 °08.47'S, 172 ° 36.72 'E), bottom trawl, 0–483 m, RV Tangaroa, November 2009. SAIAB 194659 (previously AMS I. 16494 -042), 54.9 mm, Australia, New South Wales, 50 miles off Sydney Heads (34 °08’S, 152 ° 13 ’E), midwater trawl, 0–600 m, FRV Kapala, 25 March 1971. Comparative material. Microstoma microstoma, Mediterranean: Sicily, Strait of Messina, AMS B. 6798, 160 mm; AMS B. 6799, 155.0 mm; AMS B.6800, 80 mm; AMS B. 6801, 69.8 mm; MCZ 40833, 2: 178.0– 179.2 mm. Eastern Atlantic: off Azores, MCZ 66009, 75.1 mm; MCZ 66043, 35.25 mm. Off Mauritania, MCZ 66004, 2: 41.0–47.0 mm; MCZ 66037, 32.4 mm. Senegal, CAS 234808, 80 mm (x-ray image). Off Guinea, N of Equator, MCZ 66000, 35.9 mm; MCZ 66003, 26.5 mm; MCZ 66008, 53.6 mm; MCZ 66010, 92.9 mm; MCZ 96852, 38.6 mm. Western Atlantic: Middle N Atlantic, MCZ 66040, 22.75 mm. NE of Bermuda, MCZ 101633, 80.25 mm; S of Florida, MCZ 66039, 24.2 mm; Caribbean Sea, MCZ 159281, 76.0 mm. N of Equator, MCZ 61960, 2: 83.3–103.7 mm and 1 cleared & stained (head and body separated). Microstoma sp., NE ...