Galathea Deepsea Batfish, Halieutopsis galatea Bradbury 1988
Holotype of the Galathea Deepsea Batfish, Halieutopsis galatea, from the Western Indian Ocean, ZMUC 922207, 55.1 mm SL. Source: M.G. Bradbury, Fig.9, in Ho (2022) Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 10(1): 64 pp. License: CC by Attribution
Summary:
A pale greyish batfish with a dusky reticulate pattern on the upperside around the principal tubercles.
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Bray, D.J. 2024, Halieutopsis galatea in Fishes of Australia, accessed 08 Dec 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/5676
Galathea Deepsea Batfish, Halieutopsis galatea Bradbury 1988
More Info
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Distribution |
South of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island in the Timor Sea, off Western Australia. Elsewhere the species occurs off Kenya, southwestern Madagascar and the Seychelles Bank. |
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Features |
Disk remarkably rounded with blunt rostrum; illicial cavity forming deep notch in anterior view; interorbital space narrow (11.7–12.4% SL); subopercular spine well developed.. |
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Etymology |
The specific name is from the Greek Galatea; a sea-nymph in Ovid's story of Acis and Galatea. "It recalls the name of the vessel Galathea, which secured this specimen during the 1950-1952 expedition." |
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Species Citation |
Halieutopsis galatea Bradbury 1988, Fieldiana Zoology 44: 18, Figs. 2, 3D, 7. Type locality: Off Kenya, Indian Ocean, 4°00'S, 41°27'E, depth 1551 m. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2024 |
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Galathea Deepsea Batfish, Halieutopsis galatea Bradbury 1988
References
Bradbury, M.G. 1988. Rare fishes of the deep-sea genus Halieutopsis: a review with descriptions of four new species (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae). Fieldiana Zoology New Series 44: 1-22 See ref at BHL
Ho, H. 2020. Halieutopsis galatea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T140340097A140859617. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T140340097A140859617.en. Accessed on 22 August 2022.
Ho, H.-C. 2021. Taxonomy and distribution of the deep-sea batfish genus Halieutopsis (Teleostei: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of five new species. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 10(1): 64 pp. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10010034
Ho, H.-C. & Shao, K.-T. 2007. A new species of Halieutopsis (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae) from western North and eastern central Pacific Ocean. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 14: 87-92 See ref online
