Author: (Risso, 1810)

Mora moro (Risso, 1810)

Diagnosis: chin barbel present. Vomerine teeth present, palatine teeth present. Anal fin appearing as 2. Size: to about 60 cm SL.

Habitat: benthopelagic at depths ranging from less than 500 m to about 2,500 m; trawled and caught on longline. Locally abundant. Food: a generalized feeder, mainly on fishes, crustaceans and squids, but also eating food of terrestrial origin, including garbage. Reproduction: eggs and larvae pelagic. Probably a winter and early spring spawner in the Mediterranean.

Distribution: in the eastern North Atlantic and Mediterranean from the south of Iceland to the Faroes, west of the British Isles to the Bay of Biscay, the western Mediterranean, to Cape Bojador on the West African coast, also at Madeira, the Azores, and the Canaries.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. D'Ancona, 1933: 203, pl. 12 (fig. 7-12).
Otoliths (sagitta). Vaillant, 1888: 291, pl. XXV (fig. 6) | Schmidt, 1968,19: 12, fig. 20 | Karrer, 1971: 159, fig. 20.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Gadiformes
Family Moridae
Genus Mora
Species Mora moro

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Mora moro (Risso, 1810)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Mora moro (Risso, 1810)

Synonyms:

Gadus Moro Risso, 1810, Ichth. Nice: 116 (Nice). Holotype: MNHN no. B 856.
Mora mediterranea Risso, 1826, Hist. nat. Europ. Mérid., 3: 224 (nomen novum for Gadus moro Risso).
Asellus canariensis Valenciennes, 1838, Ichth. Iles Canaries: 76 [1843], pl. 14 (fig. 3) [1838] (Canary Islands). Holotype: MNHN no. 8467.
Mora mora: Roule, 1919: 77 Koefoed, 1927, 4 (1): 124 Maul, 1952: 6: 31, fig. 8 Forster, 1968: 481 Bini, 1970, 3: 59, fig. Tortonese, 1970: 407-409, fig. 164.
Mora moro: Wheeler, 1969: 294, fig. 97A.
Mora mediterranea: Geistdoerfer et al., 1971b: 1184.


Common names:

crnka sredozemka [Hr]
mollera moranella [Es]
mora [It]
moro [Fr]
salmonete preto [Pr]

Ancona, U. d'. 1933c. Gadidae, Berycoidei, Lampridae. In: Uova, larve e stadi giovanili di Teleostei. Fauna Flora Golfo Napoli, 38 :178-255, 280-306, fig. 167-226, 240-244, pl. XII-XV, XVII-XVIII.

Bini, G. 1967-1972. Atlante dei pesci delle Coste italiane. Mondo Sommerso, Milano, 9 vol: I, 1967, Leptocardi, Ciclostomi, Selaci, 206 pp., 66 fig. + 64 col. fig. II, 1971, Osteitti (Acipenseriformi, Clupeiformi, Mictofiformi, Anguilliformi), 300 pp., 73 col. fig. III, 1970, Notacantiformi . . . Zeiformi, 229 pp., 34 fig. + 63 col. fig. IV, 1968, Perciformi (Mugiloidei, Percoidei), 163 pp., 34 fig. + 49 col. fig. V, 1968, Perciformi (Percoidei), 175 pp., 22 fig. + 56 col. fig. VI, 1968, Perciformi (Trichiuroidei . . . Blennioidei), 177 pp., 48 fig + 57 col. fig. VII,1969, Perciformi (Ofidioidei . . . Dactilopteroidei), 196 pp., 57 fig. + 59 col. fig. VIII,1968, Pleuronettiformi, Echeniformi, Gobioesociformi, Tetraodontiformi, Lofiformi, 164 pp., 34 + 63 fig. IX, 1972, Introduzione. Parte generale. Aggiornamenti. Indici. 176 p.

Forster, G. R. 1968. Line-fishing on the continental slope. II. J. mar. biol Ass. U.K, 48: 479-483.

Geistdoerfer, P.; Hureau, J. C.; Rannou, M. 1971b. Liste préliminaire des espèces de Poissons de profondeur récoltées au cours de la campagne 'Noratlante' du N.O. Jean Charcot en Atlantique Nord (aout-octobre 1969). Bull. Mus. Hist. nat., Paris, 42 (6): 1177-1185.

Karrer, C. 1971. Die Otolithen der Moridae (Teleostei, Gadiformes) und ihre systematische Bedeutung. Zool. Jb., Syst. Bd. 98: 153-204, fig. 1-20.

Koefoed, E. 1927. Fishes from the Sea-Bottom. Rep. scient. Results Michael Sars N. Atlant. deep Sea Exped., [tittle page: 1927, 1932], 4 (1): 148 pp., 55 fig., 6 pl.

Maul, G. E. 1952a. Monografia dos Peixes do Museu Municipal do Funchal. Familia Gadidae e Bregmacerotidae. Bolm Mus. munic. Funchal, 6 (15): pp. 5-51, fig. 1-12.

Risso, A. 1810. Ichthyologie de Nice, ou histoire naturelle des poissons du département des Alpes Maritimes. Paris, xxxvi+388 pp., 11 pl. (Reprint, 1966, Asher, Amsterdam.)

Risso, A. 1826. Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes maritimes. Paris et Strasbourg, vol. III, XVI+486 pp., 16 pl.

Roule, L. 1919. Poissons provenant des campagnes du yacht 'Princesse Alice' (1891-1913) et du yacht 'Hirondelle II' (1914). Résult. Camp. scient. Prince Albert 1, 52: 191 pp., 7 pl.

Schmidt, W. 1968. Vergleichend morphologische Studie über die Otolithen mariner Knochenfische. Arch. FischWiss., 19 (1): pp. 1-96, 184 fig., 25 pl.

Tortonese, E. 1970e. Osteichthyes (Pesci ossei), Parte Prima. Fauna Ital., 10, Calderini, Bologna, 565 pp., 198 fig.

Vaillant, L. 1888. Poissons in Expéditions scientifiques du 'Travailleur' et du 'Talisman' pendant les années 1880-1883. Masson, Paris, 406 pp., 28 pl.

Valenciennes, A. 1837-1844. Ichthyologie des îles Canaries, ou histoire naturelle des poissons rapportés par MM. Webb et Berthelot. In: P. B. Webb et S. Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries. Paris, 2 (2): 1-109, 26pl. [Plates: 1837: pl.1, 3-4, 8, 11-12; 1838: pl. 7, 10, 13, 14, 17; 1839: pl. 5, 9, 15-16, 18; 1840: pl. 2; 1841: pl. 6- 1842: pl. 19; 1843: pl. 20-23; 1844: pl. 24-26. Text: 1842 : 1-8; 1843: 9-96; 1844: 97-109].

Wheeler, A. 1969. The Fishes of the British Isles and North-West Europe. Macmillan, London, Melbourne and Toronto: pp. i-xvii+1-163, 5+177 fig., 392 fig. (princ. sp.), 92 n. num. fig., 16 pl., maps.

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