Brunswig's Cusk, Lamprogrammus brunswigi (Brauer 1906)
Brunswig's Cusk, Lamprogrammus brunswigi, filmed by an ROV in the central Pacific. Source: University of Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) Deep-sea Animal Identification Guide, http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/ HURL/HURLarchive/guide.php. License: CC by Attribution
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Bray, D.J. 2021, Lamprogrammus brunswigi in Fishes of Australia, accessed 08 Dec 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/4814
Brunswig's Cusk, Lamprogrammus brunswigi (Brauer 1906)
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Distribution |
Off Christmas Island in the Australian EEZ. Elsewhere the species is circumglobal on the continental slope (except the eastern Pacific). |
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Etymology |
The species was presumably named for H. Brunswig, the first officer aboard the research vessel Valdivia, during the expedition that collected the type specimen. |
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Species Citation |
Bassobythites brunswigi Brauer 1906, Die Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 15(1): 307, pl. 14 (fig. 7). Type locality: Off northeastern coast of Africa [off Somalia, western Indian Ocean], 6°18'08"N, 49°32'05"E, depth 1079 m. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2021 |
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Brunswig's Cusk, Lamprogrammus brunswigi (Brauer 1906)
References
Brauer, A. 1906. Die Tiefsee-Fische. 1. Systematischer Teil. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 15(1): 1-432 figs 1-176 pls 1-18 See ref at BHL
Cohen, D.M., Hensley, D.A. & Kimmel III, J.J. 1991. The deepsea ophidiid fish genus Lamprogrammus, a senior synonym of Bassobythites, with notes on the synonymy and distribution of L. brunswigi. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 38(2): 125-132 https://doi.org/10.11369/jji1950.38.125
Cohen, D.M. & Rohr, B.A. 1993. Description of a giant circumglobal Lamprogrammus species (Pisces: Ophidiidae). Copeia 1993(2): 470-475 https://doi.org/10.2307/1447147
Fahay, M.P. & Nielsen, J.G. 2003. Ontogenetic evidence supporting a relationship between Brotulotaenia and Lamprogrammus (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae) based on the morphology of exterilium and rubaniform larvae. Ichthyological Research 50(3): 209-220. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-003-0159-5
Knudsen, S. 2015. Lamprogrammus brunswigi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T60471877A60799164. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T60471877A60799164.en. Downloaded on 21 August 2020.
Nielsen. J.G. 1999. Families Carapidae, Ophidiidae, Bythitidae, Aphionidae. pp. 1978-1985 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.
Nielsen, J.G., Cohen, D.M., Markle, D.F. & Robins, C.R. 1999. Ophidiiform Fishes of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125 Vol. 18. 178 pp.
Smith, H.M. & Radcliffe, L., in Radcliffe, L. 1913. Descriptions of seven new genera and thirty-one new species of fishes of the families Brotulidae and Carapidae from the Philippine Islands and the Dutch East Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 44(1948): 135-176, Pls. 7-17. (as Lamprogrammus macropterus) See ref at BHL
