Lophiodes gracilimanus (Alcock 1899)

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Lophiodes gracilimanus (Alcock 1899)

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Distribution	Near Rowley Shoals, Northwest Shelf, Western Australia. Elsewhere the species is known from three widely-scattered localities in the east-Indo-West Pacific: off Malabar, India in the Arabian Sea, southern Sumatra in Indonesia and Rowley Shoals on the North West Shelf of Western Australia. Bathydemersal on the outer continental shelf and upper slope.
Etymology	The specific name is from the Latin gracilis (= slender) and manus (= hand), in reference to the narrower pectoral fin of this species compared with that of Lophiodes indicus (= Lophiomus setigerus)
Species Citation	Lophiodes gracilimanus Alcock 1899, A descriptive catalogue of Indian deep-sea fishes in the Indian Museum..: 54. Type locality: Off Malabar coast, India, depth 68-148 fathoms depth, and depth 100 fathoms.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2025
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Lophiodes gracilimanus (Alcock 1899)

References

Alcock, A.W. 1899. A descriptive Catalogue of Indian deep-sea fishes in the Indian Museum, collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey ship Investigator. Calcutta 211 pp. 8 pls 1 map. See ref at BHL

Alcock, A.W. 1900. Illustrations of the zoology of the Royal Indian marine surveying steamer Investigator,...Fishes. Calcutta. Part 7: no p., Pls. 27-35. See ref at BHL

Caruso, J.H. 1981. The systematics and distribution of the lophiid anglerfishes : 1. A revision of the genus Lophiodes with the description of two new species. Copeia 1981(3): 522-549 figs 1-21

Caruso, J.H. 1999. Family Lophiidae. pp. 2004-2012 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068.

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.

Ho, H. 2020. Lophiodes gracilimanus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T135437860A136910108. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T135437860A136910108.en. Accessed on 26 February 2025.