Gadomus longifilis Goode & Bean 1885

• Main Authors: Bañón, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Barros-García, David, Vázquez-Dorado, Sandra, Carlos, Alejandro De
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Gadiformes; Macrouridae; Gadomus; Gadomus longifilis; Greenland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6164826; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6164826

Gadomus longifilis (Goode & Bean, 1885) Fig. 3. Bathygadus longifilis Goode & Bean, 1885: 599. Albatross station 2392, 28° 47 ' 30 "N, 87 ° 27 '00"W, 1,324 m. depth. Syntypes:?SU 9546 (1), USNM 37338 (2). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953: 56. Parr, 1946: 8–17 (description, key); Iwamoto, 1970: 327– 352 (description, key); Marshall & Iwamoto, 1973: 518–530 (description, key); Howes & Crimmen, 1990: 192–201 (description, key). Material examined. MHNUSC 25005 - 1, 278 mm TL, 6 th August 2011, Galicia Bank; 42 º 40.390 ’N— 11 º 31.670 ’W; 1,450 m depth; MHNUSC 25005 - 2, 291 mm TL, 6 th August 2011, Galicia Bank; 42 º 40.390 ’N— 11 º 31.670 ’W; 1,450 m depth; MHNUSC 25005 - 3, 295 mm TL, 7 th August 2011, Galicia Bank; 42 º 58.51 ’N— 11 º 59.23 ’W; 1,683 m depth. Description. Body elongated and attenuated to the caudal peduncle; head small, 6.7–7.7 times in total length; snout blunt, 3.7–4.4 times into head; interorbital width about equal to horizontal diameter of orbit; long chin barbel present, strongly developed and 1.9–2.4 in head length; dorsal, pectoral and ventral fins with a single elongated ray, elongated second dorsal ray 1.8–2.4, elongated second pectoral ray 2.0– 2.3 and elongated first pelvic ray 2.0– 2.2 in the head length. The main morphometric and meristic characteristics are presented in Table 4. Habitat and distribution. Benthopelagic in tropical and subtropical North Atlantic between 520 and 2,165 m depth (Geistdoerfer, 1990). Amphi-Atlantic distribution; in western Atlantic it occurs in West Greenland (a single specimen), off east coast of Florida, Straits of Florida, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean sea and in eastern Atlantic from the northwest of Spain (Galicia), Portugal, Azores, Canary Islands, Morocco, Mauritania and Gulf of Guinea (Marshall & Iwamoto, 1973; Maul, 1976; Geistdoefer, 1990; Jørgensen, 1996; Bañón et al. 2010; Sobrino et al. 2012). Gadomus arcuatus (Goode & Bean, 1886) Fig. 4. Bathygadus arcuatus Goode & Bean, 1886: 158. Off Martinique Island, West Indies, ...