Author: (Tåning, 1928)

Loweina interrupta (Tåning, 1928)

Diagnosis: dorsal finrays 11-12; anal finrays 15-16; pectoral finrays 11-12. Gillrakers 3 + 1 + 8-9 (7-10), total 12-13 (11-14). Gillrakers 3 + 1 + 8-9 (7-10), total 12-13 (11-14). AO 6-7 (5-8) + 5-7, total 11-14 (10-15). Males with single large supra-caudal gland. Size: to 39 mm.

Habitat: high-oceanic, mesopelagic. Bermuda: night at 60-175 m and 800 m.

Distribution: rare. Atlantic: bitemperate pattern, probably between about 35 and 50° N and (?) in Mauritanian upwelling region; in eastern South Atlantic in region of Subtropical Convergence. Elsewhere: southern Indian and Pacific Oceans.

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

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

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Loweina interrupta (Tåning, 1928)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Loweina interrupta (Tåning, 1928)

Synonyms:

Myctophum interruptum Tåning, 1928, Vidensk. Meddr dansk naturh. Foren., 86: 56 ('North Atlantic'). Three syntypes: ZMUC no. 18, 225 and P 2329228.
Uyctophum (Myctophum) rarum (non Lütken): Brauer, 1906: 204-205, fig. 123-124 Barnard, 1925: 245.
Myctophum interruptum: Parr, 1928: 59 Norman, 1930: 324 Nybelin, 1948: 37 Maul, in Noronha & Sarmento, 1948: 145 Albuquerque, 1954-1956: 348.
Loweina interrupta: Fraser-Brunner, 1949: 1060, fig. Bekker, 1964: 15 Nafpaktitis & Nafpaktitis, 1969: 31, fig. 33-34.


Common names:

none

Albuquerque, R. M. 1954-1956. Peixes de Portugal e ilhas adjacentes. Chavas para a sua determinação. Port. Acta biol., ser. B, 5: xvi+1167 pp., 445 fig.

Barnard, K. H. 1926-1927. A Monograph of the Marine Fishes of South Africa. Part I, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 21: pp. 1-418, fig. 1-18, pl. I-XVII. Part II, ibid., 21: pp. 417-1065, fig. 19-32, pl. XVIII-XXXVIII.

Bekker, V. E. 1964. Slendertailed myctophids (genera Loweina, Tarletonbeania, Gonichthys and Centrobranchus) of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Systematics and distribution. Trudy Inst. Okeanol., 73: pp. 11-75, 25 fig. (Russian, English summary).

Brauer, A. 1906. Die Tiefseefische. 1. Systematischer Teil. Wiss. Ergebn. dt. Tiefsee-Exped. 'Valdivia', Iena, 15 (1): pp. 1-432, 18 pl., 176 fig.

Fraser-Brunner, A. 1949b. A dassification of the fishes of the family Myctophidae. Proc. zool Soc., Lond., 118: pp. 1019-1106, 167 unnumb. fig., pl. I.

Maul, G. E. 1948b. Lista sistemática dos peixes assinalados nos mares de Madeira e indice alfabetico. In: A. C. de Noronha & A. A. Sarmento, Vertebrados da Madeira, 2e ed., 2, Peixes: 135-181 (also sep., 1949).

Nafpaktitis, B. G.; Nafpaktitis, M. 1969. Lanternfishes (family Myctophidae) collected during cruises 3 and 6 of the R/V Anton Bruun in the Indian Ocean. Bull Los Angeles County Mus. Sci., (5): pp. 1-79, fig. 1-82.

Norman, J. R. 1930. Oceanic fishes and flatfishes collected in 1925-1927. 'Discovery' Rep., 2: pp. 261-370, 47 fig., 2 pl.

Nybelin, 0. 1948. Fishes collected by the Skagerak Expedition in the eastern Atlantic 1946. Göteborgs K. Vetensk.-o. VitterSamh. Handl., (B) 5 (16): pp. 1-95, 9 fig., 6 pl. (also publ. in Meddn Göteborgs Mus., zool. Avd., 121: pp. 3-95, 6 pl.).

Parr, A. E. 1928. Deep-sea fishes of the order Iniomi from the waters around the Bahama and Bermuda Islands. Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 3 (3): pp. 1-193, fig. 1-43.

Tåning, Å. V. 1928. Synopsis of the Scopelids in the North Atlantic. Vidensk. Meddr dansk naturh. Foren., 86: pp. 49-69, fig. 1-2.

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