Cryptopsaras couesii Gill 1883

• Main Authors: Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Kawai, Toshio, Amaoka, Kunio
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Lophiiformes; Ceratiidae; Cryptopsaras; Cryptopsaras couesii; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5617511; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5617511

Cryptopsaras couesii Gill, 1883 Fig. 2 Cryptopsaras couesii Gill, 1883: 284 (type locality: off New York, U.S.A., western North Atlantic, 1686 fathoms [3083 m]). Pietsch, 2009: 329. Material. HUMZ 194454 (1, 115 mm SL, female), st. 91, 3° 37.5 'N, 94 ° 53.4 'E, 3 ° 37.3 'N, 94 ° 54.9 'E, 760–769 m, off Sumatra, 29 Jun. 2005. Description. Dorsal-fin rays 4; pectoral-fin rays 15; anal-fin rays 4; caudal-fin rays 8. Teeth on vomer 7 (4 on right side, 3 on left side). Head length 31.4 % SL; head depth 34.8; head width 13.3; illicial length 2.7; upper jaw length 20.1; lower jaw length 22.3. Body slightly elongate, compressed, oval in lateral view. Mouth nearly vertical when closed. Sphenotic spines absent. Illicium very short, mostly hidden by esca. Three club-shaped caruncles just anterior to origin of dorsal-fin. Skin covered by tiny close-set dermal spines. Uniformly dark brown, inter-radial membranes of all fins transparent. Distribution. Widespread in all three major oceans. Our specimen represents the first record from Indonesia. Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Kawai, Toshio & Amaoka, Kunio, 2016, Records of deep-sea anglerfishes (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei) from Indonesia, with descriptions of three new species, pp. 267-294 in Zootaxa 4121 (3) on page 269, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4121.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/255115