Author: Cocco, 1829

Gonichthys coccoi Cocco, 1829

Diagnosis: dorsal finrays 11 (10-12, rarely 13); anal finrays 22 (21-23) pectoral finrays 14 (13-16). Gillrakers 4 (5) + 1 + 7 (6- 8), total 12 (11-13). AO 6 (4-7) + 12-13 (11-14), total 18-19 (17-20). Males with 7 (6 -8) black-rimmed luminous organs supra-caudally; females with 5 (3-6 separate oval infra-caudal glands. Size: to 60 mm.

Habitat: high-oceanic, mesopelagic. Mediterranean: day at 500-675 m nyctoepipelagic at surface and down to 135 m. Bermuda: day at 500-1,000 m (occasional specimens at surface); nyctoepipelagic at surface and down to 200 m. Juveniles deeper than 750 m both day and night (Ber muda). Food: no data. Reproduction: caudal glands develop in males al 24 mm and in females at 31 mm; sexually mature from about 38 mm Spawning peak spring early summer (Mediterranean and Bermuda).

Distribution: endemic Atlantic: broadly tropical pattern (holo-eurytropical subpattern), between about 50° N and 30° S and in eastern Mediterranean; rare in western Mediterranean; absent in the Caribbean, the Lesser Antillean region and in the minimum region off Brazil.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. Tåning, 1918: 67-70, fig. 23-24 | Sanzo, 1918: 35-37 | Tåning, 1932: pl. 113 (fig. 2) | Tortonese, 1956d: 941-943, fig. 814, pl. 51 (fig. 10).
Otoliths (sagitta). Frost, 1926b: 468, pl. 20 (fig. 15).

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Scopeliformes
Suborder Myctophoidei
Family Myctophidae
Genus Gonichthys
Species Gonichthys coccoi

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Synonym of Gonichthys cocco (Cocco, 1829)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Gonichthys coccoi Cocco, 1829

Synonyms:

Scopelus cocco Cocco, 1829, G. Sci. Lett. Art. Sicilia, (7i): 143 (Messina). No type material.
Alysia loricata Lowe, 1839, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 7: 87 (Madeira). No type material.
Scopelus cocco: Bonaparte, 1840, fasc. XXVII, pta. 138:1 p., fig. 6.
Myctophum hians Richardson, 1845, Ichthyol., Voy. H.M.S. Erebus & Terror: 41-42, pl. XXVII (fig. 19-21) (no locality). Two syntypes: BMNH no. 1847.12.31.1-2.
Scopelus coccoi: Valenciennes, 1849, in Cuv. & Val., 1849: 440 Günther, 1864a: 413-414 Canestrini, 1872: 125 Doderlein, 1874-1875: 54-55 Raffaele, 1889: 182-183, pl. VII (fig. 5) Moreau, 1891: 90 92.
Scopelus jagorii Peters, 1859, Mber. preuss. Akad. Wiss., 1859: 411. Eight syntypes: ZMHU no. 3811.
Scopelus (Rhinoscopelus) coccoi: Lütken, 1892b: 243, part., fig. 2.
Scopelus gracilis Lütken, 1892b, K. danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr., (6) 7: 237, 255, part. (off Akyab, Burma). Holotype: ZMO no. J 719; paratypes: ZMUC no. 47 & 162, not the remaining paratypes ZMUC no. 34-37 & 168 equalling G. barnesi Whitley, 1933.
Rhinoscopelus coccoi: Goode & Bean, 1896: 90, pl. 28 (fig. 104).
Myctophum (Myctophum) hians: Brauer, 1906: 194-196, part.
Myctophum (Myctophum) coccoi: Brauer, 1906: 199-202, part., fig. 116-120 Pappenheim, 1914: 194.
Myctophum coccoi: Tåning, 1918: 67-70, part., fig. 23-24; 1928: 55; 1933: pl. 113 (fig. l) Maul, 1946a: 29, fig. 10 Albuquerque, 1954-1956: 345.
Myctophum (Rhinoscopelus) coccoi: Roule & Angel, 1933: 28 Belloc, 1938: 296.
Gonichthys cocco: Bolin, 1939: fig. 3 Fraser-Brunner, 1949b: 1064, fig.
Gonichthys coccoi: Bolin, 1959: 16-17 Leim & Scott, 1966: 143 Bekker, 1967a: 98 Backus et al., 1969: 94 Tortonese, 1970e: 221, fig. 86B Bini, 1971: 175-176 2 fig. (one in colour).


Common names:

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