Author: Welsh, 1923

Bathophlus digitatus Welsh, 1923

Diagnosis: pectoral finrays 11-13; pelvic finrays (7?) 9-10. Photophores in ventral row between pectoral and pelvic fin insertions (PV) 15-16, between pelvic fin insertion and end of row over anal fin (VAV) 12-13, total in ventral row from isthmus to tail (IC) 38-39; in lateral row to pelvic fin insertion (OV) 14-16, from pelvic fin insertion to end of row over anal fin (VAL) 10-12, total in lateral row (OA) 25-26. Colour: head and body black with iridescent blue, green or bronze. Size: to about 17 cm.

Habitat, etc.: see family.

Distribution: off Gibraltar and west of Madeira. Elsewhere, southward to 9° N and again off South Africa; also, Bermuda, Cuba and Bahamas to the Lesser Antilles and Pacific and Indian Oceans.

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

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Clupeiformes
Suborder Stomiatoidei
Family Melanostomiidae
Genus Bathophilus
Species Bathophilus digitatus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Bathophilus digitatus (Welsh, 1923)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Bathophilus digitatus Welsh, 1923

Synonyms:

Dactylostomias digitatus Welsh, 1923, Proc. U.S. natn. Mus., 62 (3): 9-10, fig. 9 (255 mi. W. of Bermuda, 0-75 m). Holotype: USNM no. 84291.
Bathophilus digitatus: Parr, 1927b: 90 Regan & Trewavas, 1930: 67, fig. 45 Morrow, 1964: 466-467 Barnett & Gibbs, 1968: 826-832.
Bathophilus longipes Regan & Trewavas, 1930, Danish Dana Exped. 1920 1922, (6): 66, fig. 45, pl. 4 (fig. 3) (17° 45' N., 64° 55.5' W., 800 m wire). Holotype: Dana Coll., no. St. 1266.


Common names:

none

Barnett, M. A.; Gibbs, R. H. Jr. 1968. Four new stomiatoide fishes of the genus Bathophilus with a revised key to the species of Bathophilus. Copeia, 1968: 826-832.

Morrow, J. E.; Gibbs, R. H. Jr. 1964. Family Melanostomiatidae in Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Mem. Sears Found. Mar. Res., New Haven, 1(4): pp. 351-510. [Genera Melanostomias and Eustomias by R. H. Gibbs, Jr., the remainder by J. E. Morrow, Jr.]

Parr, A. E. 1927b. The stomiatoid fishes of the suborder Gymnophotodermi (Astronesthidae, Melanostomiatidae, Idiacanthidae) with a complete review of the species. Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 3 (2): 1-123, 62 fig.

Regan, C. T.; Trewavas, E. 1930. The fishes of the families Stomiatidae and Malacosteidae. Danish Dana Exped. 1920-1922, (6): 1-143, 138 fig., 14 pl.

Regan, C. T.; Trewavas, E. 1930. The fishes of the families Stomiatidae and Malacosteidae. Danish Dana Exped. 1920-1922, (6): 1-143, 138 fig., 14 pl.

Welsh, W. W. 1923. Seven new species of fish of the order Malacopterygii. Proc. U.S. natn. Mus., 62 (3): 1-11, 10 fig.

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