Author: Lacepède, 1801

Macrourus berglax Lacepède, 1801

Diagnosis: body moderately slender, tapering evenly to pointed tail. Head broad, with ridges well-armed with scute-like scales bearing strong spinules, length about 25% of body length; snout prominent and pointed, about equal to eye, almost or entirely scaleless underneath; mouth moderate, inferior, teeth pointed, 3-5 irregular rows in upper jaw (outer row enlarged), 1-2 rows in lower jaw; small chin barbel present, about half eye diameter; gillrakers reduced; branchiostegal rays 6. First dorsal fin with 11-13 finrays, the second finray serrated; second dorsal beginning a short distance behind and in advance of anal fin origin, with short finrays; pectoral fin with 17-20 finrays below or just before dorsal fin origin, outer finray slightly elongated. Scales large, with a serrated median keel formed by a series of strong and closely contiguous spines. Pyloric caeca 15-26 (usually 19-21), long. Anus immediately before anal fin origin. No light organ. Colour: ash grey, the chest darker, hind edges of posterior scales dark-edged, as also anal fin; the first dorsal and pectoral fins sooty. Size: to 1 m TL or more.

Habitat: benthopelagic at 100-1,000 m. Food: essentially benthic animals, on the one hand fishes and shrimps, on the other amphipods, ophiurids and polychaete worms. Reproduction: in winter and spring, perhaps extending over whole year.

Distribution: northern part of area, from Spitzbergen to Norway and westwards to the Faroes, Iceland and south-western Greenland. Elsewhere, western North Atlantic (Labrador Sea to Georges Bank and western Greenland).

Eggs, larvae and young stages. Yanulov (1962), size of ripe eggs.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

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

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Macrourus berglax Lacepède, 1801

Scientific synonyms and common names

Macrourus berglax Lacepède, 1801

Synonyms:

Macrourus berglax Lacepède, 1801, Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, Paris, 3: 170, pl. 10 (fig. 1) (description and figure largely after Bloch, 1787).
Coryphaena rupestris (nec Gunnerus): Fabricius, 1780, Fauna Groenlandica, 4, Pisces: 154.
Macrourus rupestris (nec Gunnerus): Bloch, 1786, 2: 152, pl. 177; 1787: 123, pl. 177 Reinhardt, 1838: 116 Nilsson, 1855: 604 Günther, 1862: 390 Esmark, 1869: 527 Lütken, 1872-1873: 4 Knipovitch, 1897: 152.
Macrourus fabricii Sundevall, 1842, K. Vetensk.-Acad. Handl.: 6.
Macrourus fabricii: Collett, 1875: 128; 1885: 95 Goode & Bean, 1879: 7 (listed) Lilljeborg, 1891: 242 Smitt, 1895: 587, fig. 140 Lütken, 1898: 23 Ehrenbaum, 1901: 116 Jenssn, 1904: 271; 1948: 178.
Macrurus holotrachys (nec Günther): Collett, 1896, Résult. Camp. scient. Prince Albert Ier, 10: 83, pl. 2 (fig. 6, 66).
Macrourus berglax: Goode & Bean, 1896: 391, fig. 334 Collett, 1903: 75 Wollebaek, 1924: 114, fig. 114 Bigelow & Welsh, 1925: 470, fig. 236 Knipovitch, 1926: 149, fig. 115 Vladykov & McKenzie, 1935: 66, fig. 521 Parr, 1946: 50, fig. 9-16 Bigelow & Schroeder, 1953: 245, fig. 120 Andriashev, 1954: 196, fig. 97 (after Smitt) Leim & Scott, 1966: 221, fig. on p. 222 Wheeler, i969: 258, fig. 91.
Coryphaenoides (Macrurus) berglax: Collett, 1905: 53.


Common name:

roughhead grenadier [En]

Andriashev, A. P. 1954. Ryby severnykh morei SSSR. Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR. Moskwa-Leningrad. (English trans. 1964, Jerusalem, IPST, 617 pp., 300 fig.)

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Bigelow, H. B.; Welsh, W. W. 1925. Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. Bull Bur. Fish., Wash., 40 (1): pp. 1-567.

Bloch, M. E.. 1785-1795. Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische, Berlin, 1, 1785: viii+ 136 pp., 36 pl. (CIX-CXLIV); 2, 1786: viii+160 pp., 36 pl. (CXLV-CLXXX); 3, 1787: xii +146 pp., 36 pl. (CLXXXI-CCXVI); 4, 1790: xii + 128 pp., 36 pl. (CCXVII-CCLII); 5, 1791: vi + 152 pp., 36 pl. (CCLIII-CCLXXXVIII); 6, 1792: iv +126 pp., 36 pl. (CCLXXXIX-CCCXXIII); 7, 1793: xii +144 pp., 36 pl. (CCCXXVCCCLX); 8, 1794: iv +174 pp., 36 pl. (CCCLXI-CCCXCVI); 9, 1795: ii +192 pp., 36 pl. (CCCXCVII-CCCCXXIX).

Collett, R. 1875a. Norges Fiske med Bemaerkninger om deres Udbredelse. Forh. Vidensk. Selsk. Krist., 1874 [1875]: pp. 1-240, pl. I-II, 1 map (inset).

Collett, R. 1885. Meddelelser om Norges fiske i Aarene 1879-83 (2 det Hoved-Supplement til 'Norges Fiske'). Nyt. Mag. Naturvid., 1884, 29: 47-123, pl.

Collett, R. 1896b. Poissons provenant des campagnes du yacht l"Hirondelle' (1885-1888). Résult. Camp. scient. Prince Albert 1, 10: viii +198 p., pl. I-VI.

Collett, R. 1903b. Meddelelser om Norges Fiske i Aarene 18841901. I . Forh. Vidensk. Selsk., Krist., 1902 (1): 1-121.

Collett, R. 1905a. Meddelelser om Norges Fiske i Aarene 1884-1901(3 die Hoved-Supplement til 'Norges Fiske', III Slutning). Forh. Vidensk. Selsk. Krist., (7) :1-173.

Ehrenbaum, E. 1901. Die Fische der Arctis. Fauna arct., 2: pp. 65-168.

Esmark, L. 1869. Bidrag til Finmarkens fiskerfauna. Forh. Vidensk. Selsk. Krist., 1868 [1869], 10: 516-529.

Fabricius, 0. 1780. Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens, animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis, Copenhagen & Leipzig: 452 p., pl. [Pisces :157-183].

Goode, G. B.; Bean, T. H. 1879d. A catalogue of the fishes of Essex County, Massachusetts, including the fauna of Massachusetts Bay and the contiguous deep waters. Bull. Essex Insr., Salem, 11: 1-38.

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): pp. xxxv+1-553; 2 (Atlas): pp. xxiii+1-26, 123 pl., 417 fig.

Günther, A. 1862. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. 4. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygii Pharyngognathi and Anacanthini in the collection of the British Museum. London, xxi+534 pp.

Jensen, A. S. 1904a. The Fishes of East-Greenland. Meddr Grønland, 29: 211-278, pl. XI-XII.

Jensen, A. S. 1948. Contribution to the ichthyofauna of Greenland 8-24. Spolia. zool Mus. haun., 9: 1-182, 26 fig., 4 pl.

Knipowitch, N. M. 1926. Guide for determination of the Fishes of Barents-Sea, White-Sea and Kara-Sea. Trudy Inst. Izuch. Sev., 27: 1-183, fig. 1-126.

Lütken, C. F. 1873. Malacocephalus laevis (Lowe) ved dansk kyst. Vidensk. Meddr dansk naturh. Foren., Københ., 1872 [1873], (1-5): pp. 1-8.

Lütken, C. F. 1898. The ichthyological results. Dan. Ingolf-Exped , 2 (1): pp. 1-38, 2 fig. n. num., pl. I-IV, 1 map.

Lacepède, B. 1798-1803. Histoire naturelle des Poissons, 5 vol. in-4, Paris. I: 1798, 8+cxlvii+532 pp., 25 pl., 1 tabl. (inset); II: 1800, Ixiv+632 pp., 20 pl.; III: 1801, 558 pp., 34 pl.; IV: 1802, xliv+728 pp., 16 pl.; V: 1803, xlviii+803 pp., 21 pl.

Leim, A. H.; Scott, W. B. 1966. Fishes of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Bull Fish. Res. Bd Can., (155): 485 p., many fig., unnumbered, 4 col. pl.

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Nilsson, S. 1855. Skandinavisk Fauna. Fjerde Delen: Fiskarna, Lund: xxxiv+768 p.

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Reinhardt, J. C. H. 1837b. Ichthyologiske bidrag til den grönlandske fauna. København, pp. 1-114, col. pl. I-VIII .

Smitt, F. A. 1893-1895. (ed.) A history of Scandinavian fishes, Stockholm and Paris, Atlas, I, 1893, pl. i-xxvii.

Sundevall, C. J. 1842. Om de två Nordiska arterna af fisklägtet Macrourus (Lepidoleprus Risso) och bådas förekommande vid Norrige. K svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., 1840 [1842] :1-14.

Vladykov, V. D.; McKenzie, R. A. 1935. The marine fishes of Nova Scotia. Proc. Nova Scotian Inst.'Sci. Halifax, 1934 [1935],19 (1) :17-113.

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.

Wollebaek, A. 1924. Norges fisker, Kristiania: 239 pp., 256 fig.

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