Author: Lowe, 1843

Antigonia capros Lowe, 1843

Diagnosis: body very deep, almost rhomboidal, strongly compressed, its depth less than one and a quarter times in SL. Eye large, snout shorter than eye, head profile concave over eye but convex behind it; mouth moderately protractile. Pectoral fins rounded, pelvic fins behind pectoral base, with I + 5 finrays (reaching beyond anal fin spines), dorsal fin with VII-VIII + 32-36 finrays, the spines long and strong; anal fin with III + 31-34 finrays, the spines stout and short; third dorsal and first anal spines distinctly longer than others. Body covered with small, rough (ctenoid) scales. Colour: body reddish or pink. Size: to 30 cm SL, usually 6-15 cm.

Habitat: close to bottom at 60-600 m, mainly at 100-300 m, juveniles in midwater; gregarious. Food: molluscs, gastropods, cephalopods (tropical parts of eastern Atlantic at 9° N). Reproduction: during summer (tropical parts of eastern Atlantic).

Distribution: Madeira, the Azores. Elsewhere, southward from Cape Blanc to Congo estuary, also tropical parts of western Atlantic; (?) also Indo-Pacific region.

Complementary iconography. No data.
Eggs, larvae and young stages. Nakahara, 1962: 485-486, fig. 1-2 (postlarvae).
Otoliths (sagitta). Stinton, 1967: 1-5, pl. 1 (fig. 1a-b, 2a-b), pl. 2 (fig. 1) | Schmidt, 1968: 26, pl. 5 (fig. 60), pl. 18.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Zeiformes
Family Caproidae
Genus Antigonia
Species Antigonia capros

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Antigonia capros Lowe, 1843

Scientific synonyms and common names

Antigonia capros Lowe, 1843

Synonyms:

Antigonia capros Lowe, 1843, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 11: 85-86 (Madeira). No type material.
Caprophonus aurora Müller & Troschel, 1849, Hor. ichthyol., 3: 28, pl. 5 (fig. 1) (Barbados). Holotype: ZMHU no. 1663.
Antigonia capros: Günther, 1860a: 497; 1887: 44, partim Goode & Bean, 1896: 229, partim, not pl. 65 (fig. 235) Roule, 1919: 52 Fowler, 1936: 894-895, 1306, partim, not fig. 381 Maul, in Noronha & Sarmento, 1948b: 78, 149 Fraser-Brunner, 1950c: 722 Bigelow & Schroeder, 1953b: 438-439, fig. 225 Albuquerque, 1954-1956: 596-597, partim, not fig. 209 Berry, 1959b: 231-244, fig. 8-11 Dawson, 1960: 343 Cervigon, 1966: 261-263, fig. 102 Fager & Longhurst, 1968: 1407, 1411, 1413, fig. 2 Maurin, 1968: 59, 65 Blache et al., 1970: 274, fig. 735 Maul, 1976: 39 (Madeira).
Antigonia steindachneri Jordan & Evermann, in Jordan & Fowler, 1903, Proc. U.S. natn. Mus., 25: 522-523 (Kailua, Hawaii). Holotype: USNM.
Antigonia browni Fowler, 1934, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 86: 356-358, fig. 8 ('about 50 miles southeast of Five-fathom Bank Light Ship', New Jersey). Holotype: ANSP no. 60173.


Common name:

deep-bodied boarfish [En]

Berry, F. H. 1959b. Boardfishes of the genus Antigonia of the Western Atlantic. Bull. Fla St. Mus. biol. Sci., 4 (7): 205-250, fig. 1-11.

Bigelow, H. B.; Schroeder, W. C. 1953b. Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, Fishery Bull Fish WildL Serv. U.S., 53: 1-577, fig. 1-288.

Blache, J.; Cadenat, J.; Stauch, A. 1970. Clés de détermination des poissons de mer signalés dans l'Atlantique Oriental (entre le 20e parallèle N. et le l5e parallèle S.). Faune tropicale, 18: 479 p., 1152 fig.

Cervigon, M. F. 1966. Los peces marinos de Venezuela. Estacion Investigaciones marinasde Margarita, Caracas.l (Monogr.ll): 1-440, fig.1-181, 1map; 2 (Monogr.12): 441-951 fig. 182-385.

Dawson, C. E. 1960. Records of three marine fishes new to South Carolina. Copeia, 1959: 343.

Fager, E. W.; Lonhgurst, A. R. 1968. Recurrent group analysis of species assemblages of demersal fish in the Gulf of Guinea. J. Fish. Res. Bd Can., 25 (7): 1405-1421, fig. 1-3.

Fowler, H. W. 1934a. Description of new fishes obtained 1907 to 1910, chiefly in the Philippine Islands and adjacent seas. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad, 85: 233-367, fig. 1-115.

Fowler, H. W. 1936. The Marine Fishes of West Africa, based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-15. Bull. am. Mus. nat. Hist., 70 (1), Jan. 21, 1936: vii+606 p., fig. 1-275; (2), Nov. 18,1936: 607-1493, fig. 276-567.

Fraser-Brunner, A. 1950c. Note on the fishes of the genus Antigonia (Caproidae). Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (12) 3 (32): 721-724.

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

Gunther, A. 1860a. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. 2. Squamipinnes, Cirrhitidae, Triglidae, Trachinidae, Polynemidae, Sphyraenidae, Trichiuridae, Scombridae, Carangidae, Xiphiidae. London, xxi+548 p.

Jordan, D. S.; Fowler, H. W. 1902. A review of the Chaetodontidae and related families of fishes found in the water of Japan. Proc. U.S. natn. Mus., 25 (1296): 513-563, fig. 1-6.

Lowe, R. T. 1843. Notices of fishes newly observed or discovered in Madeira during the years 1840,1841 and 1842. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 11: 81-95.

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).

Maul, G. E. 1976. The fishes taken in bottom trawls by R. V. Meteor during the 1967 Seamount Cruises in the Northeast Atlantic. Meteor Forsch. Ergebnisse, 22: 1-69.

Maurin, C. 1968. Écologie ichthyologique des fonds chalutables atlantiques (de la Baie Ibero-Marocaine à la Mauritanie) et de la Méditerranée occidentale. Revue Trav. Inst. (scient. tech.) Pêch. marit., 32 (1): 1-147, fig. 1-60.

Muller, J.; Troschel, E. H. 1849. Horae ichthyologicae. Beschreibung und Abbildung neuer Fische. (3): 28 p., 5 pl. Berlin.

Nakahara, K. 1962. A note on the larvae of Antigonia capros Lowe and Erythrocles schlegeli (Richardson) collected off the southern coast of Kyushu. Bull. Jap. Soc. scient. Fish., 28: 484-488, 7 fig.

Quéro, J.-C.; Duron, M. 1980. Sur la limite nord de l'aire de repartition d'Antigonia capros (Pisces, Zeiformes, Caproidae). Ann. Soc. Sci. nat. Charente-Maritime, 6 (7): 693-696, 3 fig.

Roule, L. 1919. Poissons provenant des campagnes du yacht 'Princesse Alice' (1891-1913) et du yacht 'Hirondelle II' (1914). Résult. Camp. scient. Prince Albert 1, 52: 191 p., 7 pl.

Schmidt, W. 1968. Vergleichend morphologische Studie über die Otolithen mariner Knochenfische. Arch. FischWiss., 19 (1): 1-96, 184 fig., 25 pl.

Stinton, F. C. 1967. The otoliths of the teleostean fish Antigonia capros and their taxonomic sigriificance. Bocagiana, (13): 1-7, pl. 1-2.

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