Lampris guttatus

• Main Authors: Underkoffler, Karen E., Luers, Meagan A., Hyde, John R., Craig, Matthew T.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Lampriformes; Lampridae; Lampris; Lampris guttatus; Lauta; Lowe; Norway; Zeus; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5957307; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5957307

Lampris guttatus (Brünnich 1788) Figs. 4B, 5 Zeus guttatus Brünnich 1788:398 –406, Pl. A. Type locality: Elsinore (Helsingør), Denmark. No types known. Zeus regius Bonnaterre 1788:496, Pl. 39 (fig. 155) Type locality: Torbay, English Channel, England. No types known. Zeus luna Gmelin 1789: 1126 –1516. Type locality: Normandy, France. No types known. Zeus opah Berkenhout (ex Pennant) 1789: 7. Type locality: United Kingdom. No types known. Zeus stroemii Walbaum 1792: 398 Type locality: Norway. No types known. Zeus imperialis Shaw in Shaw and Nodder 1793, Plate 140 Type locality: Europe. No types known. Scomber gunneri Bloch and Schneider, 1801: 38. Type locality: Sea Norway. No types known. Lampris lauta Lowe 1838:183. Type locality: off Madeira. Holotype missing. Lampris guttatus Lineage 1. Hyde, et al. 2014. Common Name: North Atlantic Opah Neotype. NRM 54834, 100.5 cm SL, Northeast Atlantic, landed in Denmark, September, 2006. Paraneotype. MOM POI-0004791, female, 97 cm SL, 40.0 kg, Bormes-les-Mimosas, France, 43°07’28” N, 6°21’18” E, January 2004, COI Lineage 1 (Hyde et al. 2014) GenBank accession # JF931882. Diagnosis. A species of Lampris distinguished from other members of the genus by the following combination of characters: Dorsal-fin rays I,47; anal-fin rays 40; pectoral-fin rays 23; pelvic-fin rays 14; origin of pelvic fin below shortened portion of dorsal-fin and well behind posteriormost elongated dorsal-fin ray; dorsal fin short, its height contained 4.5 times in standard length; maximum body depth about 1.8 times in standard length; body steel grey with well-spaced, ovoid white spots of two distinct sizes with larger spots concentrated along mid-line of body; all spots concentrated posterior to operculum and largely absent from head, operculum, and chest. Description. Dorsal-fin rays I,47 (I,47–51); anal-fin rays 40 (40); pectoral-fin rays 23 (23–25); pelvic-fin rays 14 (14). Body laterally compressed and rounded, its greatest depth contained 1.8 (1.5–1.8) times in standard length; head length ...