Childish Pearleye, Benthalbella infans Zugmayer 1911


Other Names: Zugmayer's Pearleye

Illustration of the holotype of the Childish Pearleye, Benthalbella infans. Source: Pl. 2 (fig. 8) in Zugmayer (1911) Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert 1er Monaco. Fasc. 35: 1-174, Pls. 1-6. License: Public Domain


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Bray, D.J. 2018, Benthalbella infans in Fishes of Australia, accessed 19 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/3319

Childish Pearleye, Benthalbella infans Zugmayer 1911

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Distribution

Off Newcastle, New South Wales, to south of Point Hicks, Victoria. Elsewhere the species is circumglobal in warmer temperate to tropical waters world-wide (absent from the Mediterranean).

Species Citation

Benthalbella infans Zugmayer 1911, Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 193: 14. Type locality: eastern North Atlantic [36°07´N, 10°18´W].

Author

Bray, D.J. 2018

Resources

Australian Faunal Directory

Childish Pearleye, Benthalbella infans Zugmayer 1911

References


Locket, N.A. 2000. On the lens pad of Benthalbella infans, a scopelarchid deep-sea teleost. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 355(1401): 1167-1169.

Russell, B., Poss, S., Nunoo, F. & Bannermann, P. 2015. Benthalbella infans. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T13485675A15603275. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T13485675A15603275.en. Downloaded on 20 February 2018.

Stewart, A.L. 2015. Family Scopelarchidae. pp. 566-574 in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 2 pp. 1-576. 

Zugmayer, E. 1911. Diagnoses des poissons nouveaux provenant des campagnes du yacht Princesse Alice (1901 à 1910). Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 193: 1-14

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CAAB Code:37131001

Conservation:IUCN Least Concern

Depth:200-5000 m

Habitat:Mesopelagic, bathypelagic

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