Chrionema chryseres Gilbert 1905

Summary:

A greyish duckbill with irregular dark-edged yellow spots and dashes on the head and body, a black edge along the upper jaw, a transparent first dorsal fin, pelvic fins dark medially, and a dusky upper and lower margins on the caudal fin.

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Bray, D.J. 2020, Chrionema chryseres in Fishes of Australia, accessed 28 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/5558

Chrionema chryseres Gilbert 1905

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Distribution	Coral Sea, Queensland. Elsewhere the species occurs in the east-Indo-Pacific: Myanmar, Chesterfield Islands (New Caledonia), Papua New Guinea to southern Japan, Hawaiian Islands, Sala-y-Goméz Ridge (southeastern Pacific).
Features	Pectoral fin 21-23; Gill rakers 5-7 + 17; Lateral line scales 80-87.Head moderately depressed; snout with a distinct inflection; lower jaw projecting beyond upper; maxilla without tentacle. Lateral line originating high on body, descending obliquely behind pectoral-fin base and continuing along ventral side of body.
Species Citation	Chrionema chryseres Gilbert 1905, Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission 23(2) [for 1903]: 645, Pl. 85. Type locality: off southern coast of Oahu Island, Hawaiian Islands, Albatross station 3810 [or 3813], depth 183-264 fathoms.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2020
Resources	Catalog of Fishes

Chrionema chryseres Gilbert 1905

References

Fricke, R., Kulbicki, M. & Wantiez, L. 2011. Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the Southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie 4: 341-463.

Gilbert, C.H. 1905. The deep-sea fishes. In, Jordan, D.S. & Evermann, B.W. The aquatic resources of the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 23(2): 575-713 figs 230-276 pls 66-101 See ref at BHL

Iwamoto, T. & Staiger, J.C. 1976. Biological results of the University of Miami Deep-Sea Expeditions. 119. Percophidid fishes of the genus Chrionema Gilbert. Bulletin of Marine Science 26(4): 488-498. See ref online

Kulbicki, M., Randall, J.E. & Rivaton, J. 1994. Checklist of the fishes of the Chesterfield Islands (Coral Sea). Micronesica 27(1/2):1-43.

Nelson, J.S. 2001. Trichonotidae, Creediidae, Percophidae. pp. 3511-3516 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 6 pp. 3381-4218.

Psomadakis, P., Thein, H., Russell, B.C. & Tun, M.T. 2020. Field identification guide to the living marine resources of Myanmar. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. Rome, FAO and MOALI: i-xvii + 1-694, pls. 1-58.