Species Eustomias bulbornatus Gibbs, 1960

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• Eustomias bulbornatus 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 [200, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 150566 (depth 361 fathoms), off Japan [30°22´N, 129°08´E].

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off Barrow Island to north-west of Port Hedland (18°08'S, 116°43'E), WA; tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Transition (3)

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 [200]

Gibbs, R.H., Clarke, T.A. & Gomon, J.R. 1983. Taxonomy and distribution of the stomioid fish genus Eustomias (Melanostomiidae), I: subgenus Nominostomias. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 380: 1-139 figs 1-44 [97]

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/. (Grapevine 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] (Grapevine Dragonfish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Sep-2020	STOMIIFORMES	22-Oct-2019	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED