Short Tapetail, Parataeniophorus brevis Bertelsen & Marshall 1956
A Short Tapetail, Parataeniophorus brevis - MCZ 59910. Source: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. License: CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike
Summary:
The species was described from epipelagic larval specimens.
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Bray, D.J. 2024, Parataeniophorus brevis in Fishes of Australia, accessed 24 Jan 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/1486
Short Tapetail, Parataeniophorus brevis Bertelsen & Marshall 1956
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Depth |
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Distribution |
Off Port Stephens, New South Wales. Elsewhere the species occurs in the Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to the Hawaiian Islands, and off southern California, eastern Pacific. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin 15-20; Anal fin 14-17; Pectoral fin ~16-18; Pelvic fin 8-9; Gill rakers 3+9. Vertebrae 42-46. Body depth 5-7 in SL; head length 6-10 in SL; . Caudal-fin streamer broken in all specimens, length of remainder subequal to SL in a fish of 29 mm. 125.1 Eutaeniophorus festivus: top: 5.5 cm SL, and ventral view of head; bottom: 3.5 cm SL, 14 cm TLwith complete caudal streamer. |
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Etymology |
The specific name is from the Latin brevis (= short), presumably in reference to the shorter body length of this species compared with that of Parataeniophorus gulosus, (= a larval Cetostoma regani) |
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Species Citation |
Parataeniophorus brevis Bertelsen & Marshall 1956, Dana Reports 42: 10, fig. 7. Type locality: Southern Mozambique Channel, southwestern Indian Ocean, 24°33'S, 38°26'E, depth about 100 m (300 m wire out) |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2024 |
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Short Tapetail, Parataeniophorus brevis Bertelsen & Marshall 1956
References
Bertelsen, E. 1986. Family No. 125: Mirapinnidae. pp. 406-407 in Smith, M.M. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds). Smith's Sea Fishes. Johannesburg : Macmillan South Africa xx + 1047 pp. 144 pls.
Bertelsen, E. & Marshall, N.B. 1956. The Miripinnati, a new order of teleost fishes. Dana Reports 42: 1-34 figs 1-15 pl. 1
Bertelsen, E. & Marshall, N.B. 1984. Mirapinnatoidei: development and relationships. pp. 380-383 in Moser, H.G. et al. (eds). Ontogeny and systematics of fishes. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Special Publication No. 1: 1-760. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.4434 See ref at BHL
Johnson, G.D., Paxton, J.R., Sutton, T.T., Satoh, T.P., Sado, T., Nishida, M. & Miya, M. 2009. Deep-sea mystery solved: astonishing larval transformations and extreme sexual dimorphism unite three fish families. Biology Letters 5: 235-239.
Paxton, J.R. & Johnson, G.D. 2005. Mirapinnidae: Tapetails and Hairyfish. in Richards, W. J. (ed.) Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes: An Identification Guide for the Western Central North Atlantic, Volume I & II., pp. 1091-1100. Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton.
Williams, A. 2020. Parataeniophorus brevis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T123361038A123361148. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T123361038A123361148.en. Accessed on 27 November 2024.
