Author: Valenciennes, 1833

Anoplogaster cornuta Valenciennes, 1833

Diagnosis: considerable metamorphosis in morphological features from juvenile to adult stage. Juvenile characters: long cephalic and pre-opercular spine; big eye, decreasing in length and diameter respectively with growth; teeth on jaws small, multiserial on premaxillaries; no teeth on palatine and vomer; gillrakers long and slender. Adult characters: no cephalic and preopercular spines; eye small; teeth on jaws long, fang- like; widely spaced, uniserial, minute teeth on palatine in some; gillrakers tooth-like in groups on bony bases. Common characters: no spines in fins; anal fin short, its base less than 50% of dorsal fin base; D 17-20; A 7-9; P 14-16; V 7. Vertebrae 28. Colour: brownish- grey. Size: to 152 mm SL.

Habitat: meso- to bathypelagic; adults at greater depths than juveniles. Swimming in small groups or singly. Food: carnivorous, feeding on crustaceans when young and on fish mainly when adult. Reproduction: dioecious, ripe at about 130 mm SL; reproduction areas unknown, but probably no special spawning areas.

Distribution: worldwide in temperate and warm waters between 46° N and 46° S.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. Anoplogaster cornuta is the young form of Caulolepis longidens.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Beryciformes
Family Anoplogasteridae
Genus Anoplogaster
Species Anoplogaster cornuta

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Anoplogaster cornuta (Valenciennes, 1833)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Anoplogaster cornuta Valenciennes, 1833

Synonyms:

Hoplostethus cornutus Valenciennes, 1833, in Cuv. Val., Hist. nat. Pois., 9: 470 (southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean). Holotype: MNHN no. 7443.
Caulolepis longidens Gill, 1884a, Proc. U.S. natn. Mus., 6: 258 (northwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean). Holotype: USNM no. 33270.
Caulolepis subulidens Garman, 1899, Mem. Mus. comp. Zool., 2A: 60 (Gulf of Panama). Holotype: MCZ no. 28761.
Anoplogaster cornuta: Grey, 1955b: 292, fig. 53 (references).

Common names:

none

Garman, S. 1899. Reports on a exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer 'Albatross' during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U.S.A. commanding. XXVI. The Fishes. Mem. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 24 :1-431, 97 pl., I map.

Gill, T. N. 1884a. Diagnosis of new genera and species of deep-sea fish-like vertebrates. Proc. U.S. natn. Mus., 6, 1883 [1884]: 253-260.

Grey, M. 1955b. Notes on a collection of Bermuda deep-sea fishes. Fieldiana, Zool., 37: 265-302, fig. 45-56.

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