Author: Goode & Bean, 1896

Bathylagus euryops Goode & Bean, 1896

Diagnosis: eye large, two or less in head. Gill opening restricted, extending less than halfway up side of body; anal fin base longer than caudal peduncle. Scale rows along side about 40, between dorsal base and ventral base 4-5; scale pockets with black pigment. Size: to about 20 cm. May include two species.

Habitat: meso- to bathypelagic. Sometimes taken in large aggregations. Food: plankton. Reproduction: pelagic eggs and larvae.

Distribution: common in the boreal North Atlantic, less abundant to the south. Perhaps antitropical, perhaps in other oceans.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. Tåning, 1931: 269, fig. 1-3 | Beebe, 1932a: 100, fig. 26-31.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Clupeiformes
Suborder Salmonoidei
Family Bathylagidae
Genus Bathylagus
Species Bathylagus euryops

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Bathylagus euryops Goode & Bean, 1896

Scientific synonyms and common names

Bathylagus euryops Goode & Bean, 1896

Synonyms:

Bathylagus euryops Goode & Bean, 1896, Spec. Bull. U.S. natn. Mus., 2: 55, fig 63 (near 40° N., 70° W.). Syntypes: USNM no. 31861, 35420, 39477.
Bathylagus benedicti Goode & Bean, 1896, ibid.: 55, fig. 64 (near 40° N., 70° W.). Syntypes: USNM no. 33510, 39480, 44579.
Bathylagus atlanticus (nec Günther, 1878): Holt & Byrne, 1906: 6, pl. 1 (fig. 3-4) Norman, 1930: 274 Borodin, 1931: 63.
Bathylagus euryops: Holt & Byrne, 1913: 24, fig. 10 Norman, 1930: 277 Cohen, 1964a: 4, fig. 14.
Bathylagus elongatus Roule, 1916, Bull. Inst. océanogr. Monaco, (320): 8 (near Cape Finistere). Holotype: MOM.
Bathylagus benedicti: Jensen, 1948: 93.


Common names:

none

Cohen, D. M. 1964a. Suborder Argentinoidea. Mem. Sears Found. Mar. Res., New Haven, 1 (4): 1-70.

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.

Holt, E. W. L.; Byrne, L. W. 1906. The marine fauna of the coast of Ireland; part. VIII. First report on the fishes of the Irish Atlantic slope. Fish. Ireland scient. Invest., (1905), 2: 28 p., 2 fig., pl.

Holt, E. W. L.; Byrne, L. W. 1913. Sixth report on the fishes of the Irish Atlantic slope. The families Stomiatidae, Sternoptychidae, and Salmonidae. Fish. Ireland scient. Invest., 1912 [1913], (1): 1-28, 2 pl., 11 fig.

Jensen, A. S. 1948. Contribution to the ichthyofauna of Greenland 8-24. Spolia. zool Mus. haun., 9: 1-182, 26 fig., 4 pl.

Roule, L. 1916a. Notice préliminaire sur quelques espèces nouvelles ou rares des poissons provenant des croisieres de S.A.S. Ie Prince de Monaco. Bull. Inst. océanogr., Monaco, (320): 1-32.

Tåning, Å. V. 1931. Postlarval stages of Bathylagus from the North Atlantic. Vidensk. Meddr dansk naturh. Foren., 92: 269-274.

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

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

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