Berndt's Beardfish, Polymixia berndti Gilbert 1905
Other Names: Beardfish, Berndt's Barbudo Fish, Deepsea Moi, Pacific Beardfish
Berndt's Beardfish, Polymixia berndti. Source: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
A dusky greenish beardfish becoming silvery below, with a dusky caudal fin.
Cite this page as:
Bray, D.J. 2024, Polymixia berndti in Fishes of Australia, accessed 25 Jan 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/1388
Berndt's Beardfish, Polymixia berndti Gilbert 1905
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Distribution |
Northwest Shelf,Western Australia, and off Raine Island, Queensland, to off about Byron Bay, New South Wales. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific: tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific from South Africa and Madagascar, east to the Hawaiian Islands, north to southern Japan and south to northern Australia to New South Wales and New Caledonia. The species is benthopelagic on sandy and muddy areas, usually on the outer continental shelf and slope. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin IV-V, 28-31; Anal fin IV, 14-16. |
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Fisheries |
Taken as bycatch in parts of its range. |
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Etymology |
in honor of Louis E. (or E. Louis) Berndt (1851-?), market inspector in Honolulu, Hawaii (USA), who secured type at a Honolulu fish market, and to whom the second season of investigations by the U. S. Fish Commission in the Hawaiian Islands owed much of its success Named in honour of Mr Louis E. Berndt. Gilbert wrote: "I take pleasure in naming this species for Mr. Louis E. Berndt, market inspector in Honolulu, to whose kind assistance the expedition owed much of its success. The type of the present species was secured for us by Mr. Berndt in the Honolulu market. It was not recognized by the fishermen, and doubtless lives at greater depths than the market fishes." |
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Species Citation |
Polymixia berndti Gilbert 1905, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 23(2): 616, pl. 78. Type locality: Honolulu market, Oahu Island, Hawaiian Islands. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2024 |
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Resources |
Berndt's Beardfish, Polymixia berndti Gilbert 1905
References
Borden, W.C., Grande, T.C. & Wilson, M.V.H. 2019. Phylogenetic relationships within the primitive acanthomorph fish genus Polymixia, with changes to species composition and geographic distributions. PLoS ONE 14(3): e0212954. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212954
Gilbert, C.H. 1905. The deep-sea fishes. In, Jordan, D.S. & Evermann, B.W. The aquatic resources of the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 23(2): 575-713 figs 230-276 pls 66-101 See ref at BHL
Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. & Kailola, P.J. 1984. Trawled Fishes of Southern Indonesia and Northwest Australia. Jakarta : Dir. Gen. Fish. (Indonesia), German Tech. Coop., Aust. Dev. Ass. Bur. 406 pp.
Kotlyar, A.N. 1992. A new species of the genus Polymixia from the submarine Kyushu-Palau Ridge, and notes on other representatives of the genus (Polymixiidae, Beryciformes). Journal of Ichthyology 1993, 33(3): 30–49
Grande, T.C. & Wilson, M.V.H. 2021. A new cryptic species of Polymixia (Teleostei, Acanthomorpha, Polymixiiformes, Polymixiidae) revealed by molecules and morphology. Ichthyology & Herpetology 109(2): 567-586. https://doi.org/10.1643/i2020112
Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs.
Roa-Varón, A. & Iwamoto, T. 2019. Polymixia berndti. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T135403488A135579317. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T135403488A135579317.en. Accessed on 13 June 2024.
