Author: (Goode & Bean, 1883)

Lionurus carapinus (Goode & Bean, 1883)

Diagnosis: body fairly slender, tapering evenly to pointed tail. Head length about 15% of body length. Snout pointed, the tip and angles armed with tubercular scales; mouth inferior, small, upper jaw less than one-third head length, teeth in up to 5 rows in upper jaw, pointed, the outer row enlarged, 2 or more rows of pointed teeth in lower jaw; chin barbel present, up to three-quarters eye diameter; gillrakers 8-11; branchiostegal rays 6. First dorsal fin with 10-11 finrays, the second finray serrated; second dorsal fin beginning a little distance behind first, with very short finrays; pectoral fin with 17-20 finrays, a little in advance of dorsal fin origin; pelvic with 9-11 finrays, its insertion behind that of pectoral fin, outer finray elongated; anal fin origin behind origin of second dorsal fin. Scales either plain (abdominal region) or armed with parallel or slightly divergent rows of small spinules; scales absent on lower part of snout and on a pair of lunate areas above. Pyloric caeca 9, short and simple. Anus close to anal fin origin. No light organ. Colour: pale greyish with peppering of fine melanophores, especially on back; mouth, gill cavity, gular and branchiostegal membranes, first dorsal and pectoral fins, inner and outer finrays of pelvic fins, and pentoneum dark brown. Size: to at least 35 cm TL.

Habitat: benthopelagic at 1,440-5,610 m. Food: benthic and pelagic animals (polychaete worms, copepods, amphipods, isopods, mysids). Reproduction: no data.

Distribution: Atlantic, throughout western part of area, along Irish continental slope to about 60° N. Elsewhere, southward to the Equator, also western North Atlantic over continental slope and rise between Cape Hatteras and Nova Scotia and along Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Gadiformes
Family Macrouridae
Genus Lionurus
Species Lionurus carapinus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Synonym of Coryphaenoides carapinus Goode & Bean, 1883

Scientific synonyms and common names

Lionurus carapinus (Goode & Bean, 1883)

Synonyms:

Chalinura carapina: Parr, 1946
Coryphaenoides carapinus Goode & Bean, 1883, Bull. Mus. comp. Zool., Harv., 10 (5): 197. Type: MCZ no. 28005.
Macrurus carapinus: Koefoed, 1927: 107.
Coryphaenoides carapinus: Roule & Angel, 1933: 62, pl. 3 (fig. 29-29a, head).
Nematonurus farrani Fraser-Brunner, 1935, Proc. R. ir. Acad., 42 (B): 315, fig. 1.
Chalinura carapina: Parr, 1946: 68.
Lionurus carapinus: Nybelin, 1957: 273, fig. 8-11, pl. 4 (fig. 1-4).


Common name:

carapine grenadier [En]

Fraser-Brunner, A. 1935. New or rare fishes from the Irish Atlantic slope. Proc. R. ir. Acad., 42 (B-9): pp. 319-326, fig. 1-5.

Goode, G. B.; Bean, T. H. 1883. Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, on the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the U.S. coast survey steamer 'Blake', commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. Report on the fishes. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 10 (5) :183-226.

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.

Nybelin, 0. 1957. Deep-Sea bottom-fishes. Rep. Swed. deep Sea Exped., 2, Zool. (20): pp. 247-345, 50 fig., 7 pl.

Parr, A. E. 1946. The Macrouridae of the Western north Atlantic and central american seas. Bun. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 10 (1): pp. 1-99, 28 fig.

Roule, L.; Angel, F. 1933. Poissons provenant des campagnes du Prince Albert I de Monaco. Résult. Camp. scient. Prince Albert 1, 86: pp. 1-115.

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