Species Eustomias bifilis Gibbs, 1960

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• Eustomias bifilis Gibbs, R.H. 1960. The stomiatoid fish genera Eustomias and Melanostomias in the Pacific, with descriptions of two new species. Copeia 1960(3): 200-203 fig. 1 [202, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype SIO 54–96 (depth 0-103 fathoms), off Baja California, Mexico [24°35.5´N, 121°17´W to 24°42´N, 121°17´W].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off Dampier (18º08´S, 116º40'E), WA, and off Cape York (12º40´S) to Port Douglas (16º24´S), QLD; tropical, Indo Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Bathypelagic, mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

500-2000 m.

 

General References

Gibbs, R.H. 1960. The stomiatoid fish genera Eustomias and Melanostomias in the Pacific, with descriptions of two new species. Copeia 1960(3): 200-203 fig. 1 [202]

Harold, A.S. 1999. Families Gonostomatidae, Sternoptychidae, Phosichthyidae, Astronesthidae, Stomiidae, Chauliodontidae, Melanostomiidae, Idiacanthidae, Malacosteidae. pp. 1896-1917 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. [1913]

Hutchins, J.B. 2001. Checklist of the fishes of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 63: 9-50 [19]

Parin, N.V. & Pokhilskaya, G.N. 1974. A review of the Indo-Pacific species of the genus Eustomias (Melanostomiatidae, Osteichthyes). Trudy Instituta Okeanologii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Moskva 96: 316-368 figs 1-19 [in Russian]

Paxton, J.R., Gates, J.E., Bray, D.J. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Melanostomiinae. pp. 443-452 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. [446]

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. [199]

 

Common Name References

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

Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Standard names of Australian fishes. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper 9: 1-64 [22] (Twinthread Dragonfish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Sep-2020	STOMIIFORMES	21-Oct-2019	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED