Species Eustomias macrurus Regan & Trewavas, 1930

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• Eustomias (Urostomias) macrurus Regan, C.T. & Trewavas, E. 1930. The fishes of the families Stomiatidae and Malacosteidae. Dana Reports 1920–22 6: 1-143 figs 1-138 pls 1-14 [78, pl. 7(2)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMUC P.201970, Atlantic Ocean [25°01´N, 56°21´W and 33°18´N, 56°03´W]; BMNH 1929.7.6.74, Atlantic Ocean [25°01´N, 56°21´W and 33°18´N, 56°03´W].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Off Port Douglas, Coral Sea, QLD (16º24´S) and east of Broken Bay (33°28'S, 152°33'E) to off Sydney, NSW (34°12'S, 151°36'E); tropical, Atlantic Indo-west-central Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Northeast Province (18)

Ecological Descriptors

Bathypelagic, mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

500-2000 m.

 

General References

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]

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

Fishnames 2017. Australian Fish Names Database. http://www.fishnames.com.au/ (Yellowstem 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] (Yellowstem Dragonfish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Sep-2020	STOMIIFORMES	23-Oct-2019	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED