Species Chaenophryne longiceps Regan, 1925

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• Chaenophryne longiceps Regan, C.T. 1925. New ceratioid fishes from the N. Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Panama, collected by the Dana. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 15(89): 561-567 [564].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMUC P92106, Gulf of Panama, eastern Pacific Ocean, 1500 m. [7°30'N, 79°19'W].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Regan, C.T. & Trewavas, E. 1932. Deep sea anglerfish (Ceratioidea). Dana Reports 1928–30 2: 1-113 figs 1-172 pls 1-10 [1928–30] [87].

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

SW of Investigator Group, SA (133°43'E); to SW of Cape Leeuwin, WA (114°49'E), based on specimens in SAMA and CSIRO; tropical, temperate, circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range: 500-1000 m.

 

General References

Pietsch, T.W. 1999. Families Caulophrynidae, Neoceratiidae, Melanocetidae, Himantolophidae, Diceratiidae, Oneirodidae, Thaumatichthyidae, Centrophrynidae, Ceratiidae, Gigantactinidae, Linophrynidae. pp. 2026-2037 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068. [2033]

Pietsch, T.W. 2008. Oneirodidae. pp. 382-384 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [382]

Pietsch, T.W. 2009. Oceanic Anglerfishes. Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press pp. i-xii + 1-557. [386]

 

Common Name References

Fishbase 2004. Fishbase at. http://www.fishbase.org/Summary. (16 September 2011) (Can-opener Smoothdream)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (16 September 2011) (Longhead Dreamer)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
25-Jun-2015	LOPHIIFORMES	09-May-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED