Species Brotulotaenia nigra Parr, 1933

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• Brotulotaenia nigra Parr, A.E. 1933. Deepsea Berycomorphi and Percomorphi from the waters around the Bahama and Bermuda Islands. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection 3(6): 1-51 figs 1-22 [50, fig. 19].

  Type data:

   Holotype YPM 2855, Turks Island Passage, West Indies, Caribbean. 8000' wire out. [21°30´N, 71°11´W].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Brotulotaenia sp. A [in CAAB, 15 May 2015].
• Brotulataenia [genus name often misspelled as Brotulataenia].

 

Introduction

There is apparently some disagreement about the name for this species.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

A specimen lot at CSIRO (275mm SL) was identified as Brotulotaenia sp A from off Exmouth, WA from c. 900m depth (the same specimen listed as Ophidiidae gen sp in Williams et al 1996 WA slope checklist). It was later reidentified as B. nigra by Nielsen in 1997 (level 1) but re-identified again in Jul 2003 as B. sp A (non-nigra) by P. Last (level 3); the species is included here based on AM specimen from off Port Headland (18º27´S") identified by Okiyama; tropical, Atlantic, east-Indo-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Transition (3)

Ecological Descriptors

Mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

800-914m

 

General References

Cohen, D.M. 1974. A review of the pelagic ophidioid fish genus Brotulataenia [sic] with descriptions of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 55(2): 119-149 [143]

Fahay, M.P. & Nielsen, J.G. 2003. Ontogenetic evidence supporting a relationship between Brotulotaenia and Lamprogrammus (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae) based on the morphology of exterilium and rubaniform larvae. Ichthyological Research 50(3): 209-220 [210]

Hoese, D.F., Paxton, J.R., Gates, J.E. & Bray, D.J. 2006. Ophidiidae. pp. 556-566 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [558]

Hutchins, J.B. 2001. Checklist of the fishes of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 63: 9-50 [23]

Nielsen, J.G., Cohen, D.M., Markle, D.F. & Robins, C.R. 1999. Ophidiiform Fishes of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125 Vol. 18. 178 pp. [26]

Okiyama, M. & Kato, H. 2002. Larval development of Brotulotaenia nielseni (Ophidiiformes, Ophidiidae, Brotulotaeniinae), with notes on relationships. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A, Zoology 28(3): 159-170 [160]

Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [311]

Williams, A., Last, P.R., Gomon, M.F. & Paxton, J.R. 1996. Species composition and checklist of the demersal ichthyofauna of the continental slope off Western Australia (20–35º). Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 135-155 (As Ophidiidae gen nov.)

 

Common Name References

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Dark Cusk)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Jun-2015	OPHIDIIFORMES	17-May-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED