Author: Kröyer, 1862

Careproctus reinhardti Kröyer, 1862

Diagnosis: maximum body depth distinctly less than head length. Nostrils tubular. Lower pectoral fin lobe length distinctly less than head length. Disc not deeply cupped. Anus about one eye diameter behind disc. Dorsal finrays 54-55; anal finrays 45-46. Size: to at least 70 mm.

Habitat: depths from 200 to 1,000 m, on muddy bottoms. Food: benthic and pelagic crustaceans. Reproduction: no data.

Distribution: Faroe Shetland Channel to Spitsbergen, Murmansk and northern Kara and Laptev Seas; throughout Barents Sea, and possibly throughout Norwegian Sea. One specimen from the Skagerrak. Elsewhere, eastern (St Lawrence estuary) and north-eastern (Richmond Gulf) Canada.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. Collett, 1909, pl. 2 (fig. 8) | Rass, 1941: 26.
Otoliths (sagitta). W. Schmidt, 1968: 58, pl. 12 (fig. 165).

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Scorpaeniformes
Suborder Scorpaenoidei
Family Liparididae
Genus Careproctus
Species Careproctus reinhardti

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Careproctus reinhardti (Krøyer, 1862)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Careproctus reinhardti Kröyer, 1862

Synonyms:

Careproctus reinhardti Kröyer, 1862, Naturhist. Tidsskr. (3 Raekke), 1(2): 252 (south west Greenland).
Liparis gelatinosus (nec Pallas): Reinhardt, 1843, K. dansk. Vidensk. Selsk Nat.-Math. Afhandl.: Ixxvi (West Greenland).
Careproctus dubius Zugmayer, 1911b, Rés. Campagn. sci. Albert I Monaco, 35: 113 (Spitzbergen).
Careproctus reinhardti: Andriashev, 1954: 462-464, fig. 270.


Common names:

none.

Collett, R. 1909. Fiske, indsamlede under 'Michael Sars' Togter i Nordhavet, 1900-02. Rep. Norw. Fishery mar. Invest., Bergen, 2 (3): pp. 1-152, 2 pl.

Kröyer, H. N. 1862. Nogle Bidrag til Nordisk ichthyologi. De Grønlandske Liparis Arten. Naturh. Tidsskr., 1861 [1862], (3)1 B: pp. 233-310.

Rass, T. S. 1941. Analogous or parallel variations in structure and development of fishes in northern and arctic seas. Jubilee publications of the Moscow Society of Naturalist, 1805 to 1940. Moscow: pp. 1-60, 8 fig.

Reinhardt, J. C. H. 1842. [Över tvende for den grönlandske Fauna nye Fiskearter]: pp. 82-84. In: H. C. Örsted, Overs. K. danske Vidensk. Selsk. Forh. (1842): pp. 73-86 .

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

Zugmayer, E. 1911b. Poissons provenant des campagnes du Yacht 'Princesse Alice'. Résult. Camp. scient. Prince Albert 1, 35: 174 pp., 6 pl.

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