Bythitidae

• Main Authors: Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio, Serrano, Alberto
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Ophidiiformes; Bythitidae; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5618921; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/AC642D143A51FFD334F2FD3CD8C12D71

Family Bythitidae Cataetyx alleni (Byrne, 1906) —No common name (Fig. 18) 29 specimens were caught at depths between 755 and 916 m. Length data were available for 20 specimens ranging from 9 to 15 cm TL. Habitat and Distribution: bathydemersal, depth range 480–1,851 m, usually below 600 m. Eastern Atlantic, from the southwestern Ireland to Portugal and western Mediterranean Sea. Vulnerability: DD (IUCN), LV (FishBase). Cataetyx laticeps Koefoed, 1927 —No common name 2 specimens of 72 and 82 cm TL were caught at depths of 1,683 and 1,685 m respectively. Habitat and Distribution: bathydemersal or benthopelagic at depth range 500–2,830. North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. In the eastern Atlantic, from Iceland, scattered localities around the British Isles, France, Azores, and along the coast of West Africa to the Cape of Good Hope. Vulnerability: DD (IUCN), HV (FishBase). Published as part of Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio & Serrano, Alberto, 2016, Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain), pp. 293-333 in Zootaxa 4067 (3) on page 317, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/256670