Epigonus macrops

• Main Authors: Okamoto, Makoto, Gon, Ofer
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Perciformes; Epigonidae; Epigonus; Epigonus macrops; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5998249; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A2BF386E7D4078FF185F0412449CDA

Epigonus macrops (Brauer, 1906) (English name: Luminous Deepwater Cardinalfish) (Figs. 1, 13; Tables 1, 2) Oxyodon macrops Brauer, 1906: 288, fig. 172 (original description; type locality: west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia; syntype: ZMB 17678); Jordan, 1920: 517 (list); Schultz, 1940: 412 (list); Weber & de Beaufort, 1929: 351, fig. 81 (description, based on Brauer, 1906, west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia); Norman, 1939: 60 (list). Epigonus macrops : Mayer, 1974: 159, fig. 4 (description, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and northwestern Atlantic); Fujii, 1983: 323, unnumbered fig. (description, Suriname and French Guiana); Shcherbachev, 1987: 42 (list, Indian Ocean); Allen & Cross, 1989: 553 (list, Western Australia); Abramov, 1992: 98, table 1 [key and distribution, western North Atlantic (from Florida to Guiana), Indian Ocean (from Tanzania to Sumatra), and South China Sea (off southern Vietnam)]; Williams et al ., 1996: 153, appendix 1 (list, Western Australia); Gon, 1999: 2613 (key and brief description, off southern Vietnam); Gon, 2000: 614 (list, South China Sea, off southern Vietnam); Hutchins, 2001: 32 (list, Western Australia); Gon, 2003: 1394 (key and list, western North Atlantic); McEachran & Fechhelm, 2005: 235 (list, Gulf of Mexico); Hoese et al ., 2006: 1114 (list, Western Australia); Okamoto & Nakayama, 2016: 79, fig. 1 (description, southeastern Atlantic and Timor Sea). Epigonus merleni McCosker & Long, 1997: 126, fig. 1 (type locality: Galápagos Islands). Epigonus atherinoides (not of Gilbert, 1905): Horikoshi et al ., 1983: 117 (list, Timor Sea). Material examined. ZMB 17678, syntype of Oxyodon macrops , 202.5 mm SL, western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, Eastern Indian Ocean, 03°22.01 S, 101°11.05 E, 903 m depth, 21 January 1899 (Fig. 13). Diagnosis. Dorsal-fin rays VII-I-I, 10 or rarely VIII-I, 10; pectoral-fin rays 18–20; total gill rakers 18–20; vertebrae 10 + 15; pyloric caeca 8; pored lateral-line scales 45–51 + 3–5; opercular spine absent; maxillary ...