Brauer's Dragonfish, Photonectes braueri (Zugmayer 1913)
Other Names: Scaleless Dragonfish
Brauer's Dragonfish, Photonectes braueri. Source: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial
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Dianne J. Bray, Photonectes braueri in Fishes of Australia, accessed 09 Jun 2023, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/4436
Brauer's Dragonfish, Photonectes braueri (Zugmayer 1913)
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Distribution |
Off Newcastle, New South Wales, to the Cascade Plateau, southeast of Tasmania. Elsewhere the species occurs in the Atlantic, western Indian Ocean and west-Pacific. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin 15-18; Anal fin 17-21: Pectoral fin 0-2; PV photophores 22-24. Body elongate, slender; snout short, blunt. Barbel with a black stem and a simple unpigmented spherical or ovoid terminal bulb. Pectoral fins without lumps of luminscent material. Postorbital photophore long, more or less triangular; anterior orbital photophore present; no large luminescent patches on head behind eye. Photophores in ventral row between pectoral and pelvic fin insertions (PV) 22–24. |
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Colour |
Overall black without white spots on upper side behind head. |
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Etymology |
Melanostomias braueri Zugmayer 1913, Bull. l'Inst. Océanogr. Monaco 253: 3. Type locality: North Atlantic [39°19´N, 35°24´W]. |
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Author |
Dianne J. Bray |
Brauer's Dragonfish, Photonectes braueri (Zugmayer 1913)
References
Morrow, J.E. & Gibbs, R.H. 1964. Family Melanostomiatidae. pp. 351-511 figs 92-136 in Olsen, Y.H. (ed.). Fishes of the western North Atlantic. Memoir. Sears Foundation of Marine Research 1(4): 1-599.
Zugmayer, E. 1913. Diagnoses des stomiatidés nouveaux provenant des campagnes du yacht Hirondelle II. (1911 et 1912). Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 253: 1-7
