Author: Zugmayer, 1911

Parabrotula plagiophthalmus Zugmayer, 1911

Diagnosis: see generic characters. Size: to about 50 mm.

Habitat, Food, Reproduction: see family.

Distribution: known from about 150 specimens, the majority of which are caught within the area. A few specimens are reported from the western and central Atlantic, the Gulf of Guinea and from the southern Pacific.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. Turner, 1936: 313-325, pl. 1-2 | Nielsen, 1968: 235, fig. 6.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Perciformes
Suborder Gobioidei
Family Parabrotulidae
Genus Parabrotula
Species Parabrotula plagiophthalmus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Parabrotula plagiophthalmus Zugmayer, 1911

Scientific synonyms and common names

Parabrotula plagiophthalmus Zugmayer, 1911

Synonyms:

Parabrotula plagiophthalmus Zugmayer, 1911a, Bull. Inst. océanogr. Monaco, (193): 10 (northeastern Atlantic). Holotype: MOM.
Parabrotula plagiophthalmus: Zugmayer, 1911b: 129-130, pl. Vl (fig. 5) Fowler, 1936: 1071-1072, fig. 449 Koefoed, 1952: 21-22, pl. III (fig. A) Marshall, 1954: 320 321, pl. IV Hardy, 1956: pl. 24 (fig. 1) Idyll, 1964: 176 Norman, 1966: 497 Nielsen, 1968: 227-238, fig. 1-7.
Parabrotula dentiens Beebe, 1932, Zoologica, N.Y., 13: 81 (off Bermuda). Holotype: USNM no. 170952.
Parabrotula dentiens: Parr, 1933b: 47-48, fig. 21.


Common names:

none

Beebe, W. 1932a. Nineteen new species and four postlarval deep-sea fish. Zoologica, N.Y., 13 (4): 47-107, fig. 1-31.

Fowler, H. W. 1936. The Marine Fishes of West Africa, based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-1915. Bull. am. Mus. nat. Hist., 70 (1), Jan. 21, 1936: pp. vii+1-606, fig. 1-275; (2), Nov. 18, 1936: pp. 607-1493, fig. 276-567.

Hardy, A. 1956. The Open Sea. Its Natural History. Houghton Mifflin, 1956-1959. 2 vol., illus.

Idyll, C. P. 1964. Abyss. New York, 396 p.

Koefoed, E. 1952. Zeomorphi, Percomorphi, Plectognathi. Rep. scient. Results Michael Sars N. Atlant. deep Sea Exped., 4, II (2) :1-26, 3 fig., 3 pl.

Marshall, N. B. 1954. Aspects of deep-sea biology, London: 380 p., fig., 4 pl.

Norman, J. R. 1966. A draft synopsis of the orders, families and genera of recent fishes and fish-like vertebrates. London, 649 pp.

Parr, A. E. 1933b. Deep-sea Berycomorphi and Percomorphi from the waters around the Bahama and Bermuda Islands. Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 3 (6): pp. 1-51, fig. 1-22.

Turner, C. L. 1936. The absorptive processes in the embryos of Parabrotula dentiens, a viviparous, deep-sea brotulid fish. J. Morph., 59: 313-325.

Zugmayer, E. 1911a. Diagnoses de Poissons nouveaux provenant des campagnes du Yacht 'Princesse Alice' (1901-1910). Bull. Inst. océanogr., Monaco, (193): pp. 1-14.

Zugmayer, E. 1911b. Poissons provenant des campagnes du Yacht 'Princesse Alice'. Résult. Camp. scient. Prince Albert 1, 35: 174 pp., 6 pl.

Nielsen, J. G. 1968. Redescription and reassignment of Parabrotula and Leucobrotula (Pisces, Zoarcidae). Vidensk. Meddr dansk naturh. Foren., 131: 225-249,12 fig.

Map retrieved from OBIS on 24-08-2009. Update map.

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