Author: Nielsen, 1969

Meteoria erythrops Nielsen, 1969

Diagnosis: caudal part of body only about 30% SL. Eyes small, black, deeply placed; blunt snout and almost horizontal mouth; dentaries, premaxillaries and vomer with small teeth, fangs not developed. Dorsal finrays 48-50; anal finrays 34-40; pectoral peduncle as long as broad, with 13-15 finrays; pelvic fins absent. Vertebral centra in adults nearly rectangular. Colour: skin transparent, underlying tissues light yellow; red-brown area surrounding the small black-pigmented eyes. Size: to about 70 mm SL.

Habitat: on or near the bottom at bathyal and abyssal depths. Food: no data. Reproduction: probably viviparous.

Distribution: three specimens recorded, two in the area (42°06.3' N, 14°42' W, and 42°54' N, 13°25.1' W). Elsewhere, one just west of the Azores (40°32' N, 35°24' W).

Eggs, larvae and young stages. Nielsen, 1969: fig. 43.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Perciformes
Suborder Ophidioidei
Family Aphyonidae
Genus Meteoria
Species Meteoria erythrops

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Meteoria erythrops Nielsen, 1969

Scientific synonyms and common names

Meteoria erythrops Nielsen, 1969

Synonyms:

Meteoria erythrops Nielsen, 1969, Calathea Rep., 10: 58 (east of the Azores). Holotype: ISH no. 1660/66.
Gen. et spec. indet.: Nybelin, 1957: 313-314, pl. 7 (fig. 4 & 11).


Common names:

none.

Nielsen, J. G. 1969. Systematics and biology of the Aphyonidae (Pisces, Ophidioidea). Galathea Rep., 10: 1-88, 56 fig., 4 pl.

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

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