Species Bathylagichthys longipinnis (Kobyliansky, 1985)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bathylagus longipinnis Kobyliansky, S.G. 1985. Material for the revision of the genus Bathylagus Günther (Bathylagidae): the group of "light" deepsea smelts. Voprosy Ikhtiologii 25(1): 51-67 [in Russian; English translation in J. Ichthyol. 25(2): 1–17] [52, Fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMMU P-16296, Southwestern Indian Ocean close to southeastern Atlantic, depth 200-0 m [41°34'S, 22°41'E].
  Paratype(s) IOAN uncat.

 

Generic Combinations

• Bathylagichthys longipinnis (Kobyliansky, 1985). —
  Kobyliansky, S.G. 1986. Materials for a revision of the family Bathylagidae (Teleostei, Salmoniformes). Transactions. P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology 121: 6-50 [in Russian] [48] (changed combination as type of genus Bathylagichthys)

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

East of Maria Island, TAS (42°40'S, 148°26'E), and eastwards into the southern Tasman Sea (41°08'S, 152°16'E); temperate, Atlantic-Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11)

Ecological Descriptors

Mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

200-600 m, elsewhere 75-400 m

 

General References

Flynn, A.J. & Pogonoski, J.J. 2012. Guide to Mesopelagic Fishes of the Southern Tasman Sea. Hobart, Australia : CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research i-v + 221 pp. [31]

Gon, O. & Stewart, A.L. 2015. Family Bathylagidae. pp. 337-345 in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 2 pp. 1-576. [340]

Kobyliansky, S.G. 1990. Two new species of the genus Bathylagichthys Kobyliansky (Bathylagidae, Salmoniformes) from Southern Hemisphere subpolar waters. Voprosy Ikhtiologii 30(4): 537-542 [English translation in J. Ichthyol. 30(5):21–27] [542]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	ARGENTINIFORMES	20-May-2015	ADDED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)