Species Snyderidia canina Gilbert, 1905

Museums

Regional Maps

• Snyderidia canina Gilbert, C.H. 1905. The deep-sea fishes. In, Jordan, D.S. & Evermann, B.W. The aquatic resources of the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 23(2): 575-713 figs 230-276 pls 66-101 [655, Pl.92].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 51646, Vicinity of Kauai Island, Hawaiian Islands, Albatross station 3810 [or 3989], depth 385-500 fathoms.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Australian record based on 3 CSIRO specimens collected SE of Cocos (Keeling) Island (13°04'S, 96°09'E); circumglobal in tropical and subtropical seas, absent from the eastern Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

320-410m

 

General References

Markle, D.F. & Olney, J.E. 1990. Systematics of the pearlfishes (Pisces: Carapidae). Bulletin of Marine Science 47(2): 269-410 [327]

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. [21]

Nielsen. J.G. 1999. Families Carapidae, Ophidiidae, Bythitidae, Aphionidae. pp. 1978-1985 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. [1978]

Parmentier, E., Castillo, G., Chardon, M. & Vandewalle, P. 2000. Phylogenetic analysis of the pearlfish tribe Carapini (Pisces: Carapidae). Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 81: 293-306 [295]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	OPHIDIIFORMES	27-Jun-2011	ADDED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)