Abyssobrotula Nielsen 1977
Abyssobrotula Nielsen, 1977 Abyssobrotula Nielsen, 1977: 41, type species Abyssobrotula galatheae Nielsen, 1977 (type locality: Kermadec Trench, New Zealand). Abyssobrotula: Cohen & Nielsen 1978: 24, fig. 34; Shcherbachev 1980: 114; Shcherbachev & Tsinovsky 1980: 55; Machida 1989: 23; Nielse...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Other/Unknown Material |
| Language: | unknown |
| Published: |
2016
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://zenodo.org/record/6063880 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6063880 |
| Summary: | Abyssobrotula Nielsen, 1977 Abyssobrotula Nielsen, 1977: 41, type species Abyssobrotula galatheae Nielsen, 1977 (type locality: Kermadec Trench, New Zealand). Abyssobrotula: Cohen & Nielsen 1978: 24, fig. 34; Shcherbachev 1980: 114; Shcherbachev & Tsinovsky 1980: 55; Machida 1989: 23; Nielsen et al. 1999: 50, fig. 45. Diagnosis. This diagnosis is a slightly modified version of the one from Nielsen et al. (1999) due to the establishing of a new species. An ophidiid genus characterized by the following combination of characters: Body compressed and short head with a downward inflection, swollen snout, inferior mouth long, its posterior margin extending well behind small eye, body and head fully scaled, two median and a pair of basibranchial tooth patches, dorsal-fin rays 97–116, anal-fin rays 76 –96, 10– 15 pectoral-fin rays extending beyond anus, pelvic-fin rays 2, long rakers 8–11 on anterior gill arch, precaudal vertebrae 17–20, total vertebrae 67–75. Published as part of Ohashi, Shinpei & Nielsen, Jørgen G., 2016, A new species of Abyssobrotula (Ophidiiformes, Ophidiidae) from the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, pp. 559-566 in Zootaxa 4132 (4) on page 560, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4132.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/257639 |
|---|