Author: Goode & Bean, 1896

Bathylaco nigricans Goode & Bean, 1896

Diagnosis: body fairly slender, somewhat compressed. Eye far forward, snout short; gill cover enlarged diagonally downward; upper jaw reaching well beyond eye and more than half length of head; gillrakers 3-4 + 1 + 7-8 = 11-15. Dorsal fin origin relatively far forward, well before anal fin origin; pectoral fin small, set low on body. Vertebrae 25-32 + 14-20 = 42-49. Colour: blackish. Size: to at least 34 cm.

Habitat: meso- to bathypelagic at 450-4,376 m, usually at 1,750-2,200 m. Food: no data. Reproduction: ovarian eggs large (to 2.7 mm diameter) and few (to 1,000 in a clutch).

Distribution: scattered records in southern part of Clofnam area, from south-west of Ireland to the Azores. Elsewhere. to 21° 35' S and circumglobal.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. Nielsen & Larsen, 1968: 228-229, 231, fig. 7 (Macromastax gymnos is probably a juvenile form).
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Clupeiformes
Family Alepocephalidae
Genus Bathylaco
Species Bathylaco nigricans

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Bathylaco nigricans Goode & Bean, 1896

Scientific synonyms and common names

Bathylaco nigricans Goode & Bean, 1896

Synonyms:

Bathylaco nigricans Goode & Bean, 1896, Oceanic Ichthyology: 57, fig. 69 (between St. Croix and St. Thomas, Virgin Isls.). Holotype MCZ 28061.
Macromastax gymnos Beebe, 1933, Zoologica, N.Y., 13 (8): 162-163, fig. 40 (eight miles south of Nonsuch Isl., 1000 fathoms). Holotype USNM 170960 (Synonymy doubtful).
Bathylaco nigricans: Nielsen & Larsen, 1968: 222-231, pl. 15; 1970: 30-35, fig. 1A, 24 Nielsen, 1972a: 34-35, fig. 5 Markle, 1976 :123, fig. 38 B.


Common names:

black warrior [En]

Goode, G. B.; Bean, T. H. 1896. Oceanic ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by steamers Blake, Albatross and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic. Smithson. Contrib. Knowl., 30 and Spec. Bull U.S. natn. Mus., 1895 [1896] and Mem. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 1 (Text): xxxv+1-553; 2 (Atlas): xxiii+1-26, 123 pl., 417 fig.

Markle, D. F. 1976. Preliminary studies on the systematics of deep-sea Alepocephaloidea (Pisces: Salmoniformes). A dissertation presented to the Faculty of the School of Marine Science. The College of William and Mary in Virginia. 225 pp., 41 fig. (not published).

Nielsen, J. G. 1972a. Additional notes on Atlantic Bathylaconidae (Pisces, Isospondyli) with a new genus.Arch. FischWiss. 23 (1): 29-36, 5 fig.

Nielsen, J. G.; Larsen, V. 1968. Synopsis of the Bathylaconidae (Pisces, Isospondyli) with a new eastern Pacmc species. Galathea Rep., 9: 221-238, 10 fig., 3 pl.

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