Author: Zugmayer, 1914

Cetostoma regani Zugmayer, 1914

Diagnosis: vomerine tooth plate flat. Free gill arches 4, slit behind 4th arch reduced to tubular hole behind angle; separate tooth plates instead of gill rakers; copular tooth plates 3. Dorsal finrays 29-37; anal finrays 26-34. Numerous anal lappets, joined basally, about 1 per finray, over anal base. Lateral line pores 16-18, without flaps; lateral line scales flat, without dorsal and ventral points. Cavernous tissue only anterior to anus. Vertebrae 47-53. Colour: dark brown to black body with reddish-orange head and reddish fin margins. Size: to 246 mm SL.

Habitat: oceanic waters, bathypelagic, to at least 1500 m; smaller specimens mesopelagic, 150 m (nocturnal). Food: decapods and euphausiids (Herring, 1976). Reproduction: all examined specimens more than 90 mm SL are females (Paxton, 1989), only confirmed male less than 50 mm SL.

Distribution: Uncommon. In the area to 50° N. Elsewhere, all oceans between about 50° N and 40° S.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Cetomimiformes
Family Cetomimidae
Genus Cetostoma
Species Cetostoma regani

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Cetostoma regani Zugmayer, 1914

Scientific synonyms and common names

Cetostoma regani Zugmayer, 1914

Synonyms:

Cetostoma regani Zugmayer, 1914, Bull. Inst. océanogr. Monaco, (288): 3-4 (Eastern North Atlantic). Holotype: MOM stn. no. 3215 (30°45'30"N., 25°47'W.). 'New genus': Murray & Hjort, 1912: 613, 682, fig. 498.
Cetomimus regani: Parr, 1928: 174-176, fig. 42.


Common name:

Long-finned whalefish [En]

Parr, A. E. 1928. Deep-sea fishes of the order Iniomi from the waters around the Bahama and Bermuda Islands. Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 3 (3): pp. 1-193, fig. 1-43.

Zugmayer, E. 1914. Diagnoses de quelques poissons nouveaux provenant des campagnes du yacht 'Hirondelle II' (1911-1913). Bull Inst. océanogr., Monaco, (288): pp. 1-4.

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