Longray Whiptail, Coryphaenoides subserrulatus Makushok 1976

Other Names: Four-rayed Rattail, Longrayed Whiptail, Long-rayed Whiptail, Subserrulate Whiptail

Longray Whiptail, Coryphaenoides subserrulatus. Source: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial

Summary:

A whiptail with extremely elongated upper pectoral-fin and outer pelvic-fin rays, much longer than head length.

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Longray Whiptail, Coryphaenoides subserrulatus Makushok 1976

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Distribution	East of Broken Bay, New South Wales, to southwest of Beachport, South Australia, including Tasmania; also off Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean. Elsewhere the species is circumglobal in the Southern Hemisphere, on seamounts and ridges of the southern Indian Ocean, off southern Africa, South America, southeastern Australia and New Zealand. Benthopelagic at depths of 400-1400 m, usually 800-1000 m.
Features	Dorsal fin II, 9-11; Pectoral fin 13-18; Pelvic fin 7; Gill rakers (inner) 16-19; Pyloric caecae 12-14. Head short, eye longer than snout; snout short, slightly protruding, terminal and lateral tips with stout spiny scute; underside of snout naked, dorsal surface partly naked; suborbital with ridge of stout, coarsely thickened scales; chin barbel rudimentary, scarcely visible. Upper jaw teeth in narrow band, outer series slightly enlarged; lower jaw teeth in single row. Body scales densely covered with greatly reclined, broadly lanceolate spinules. Upper pectoral-fin ray and outer pelvic-fin ray extremely elongated, much longer than head.
Size	Reaches a total length of 37 cm.
Colour	Overall silvery, sides of body with irridescent green tinge, fins dusky to blackish, mouth and gill cavities dark.
Fisheries	Trawled as bycatch in commercial fisheries and of minor commercial importance.
Conservation
Species Citation	Coryphaenoides subserrulatus Makushok, 1976, Okeanol. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 104: 144, figs. 1-6, south of New Zealand, off Campbell Plateau 52°20'S, 166°13'E.
Author	Bray, D.J. & Frankham, G. 2018
Resources	Australian Faunal Directory

Longray Whiptail, Coryphaenoides subserrulatus Makushok 1976

References

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