Humphead Whiptail, Coryphaenoides filicauda Günther 1878

Other Names: Grenadier

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Bray, D.J. 2018, Coryphaenoides filicauda in Fishes of Australia, accessed 13 Oct 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/3779

Humphead Whiptail, Coryphaenoides filicauda Günther 1878

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Distribution	East of Tuncurry, New South Wales, to south of Bruny Island, Tasmania, also Lord Howe Rise, Tasman Sea, and just south of Macquarie Island in AUS territorial waters. Elsewhere the species is circumglobal in the Southern Hemisphere. Primarily an abyssal bathypelagic species on the continental slope and continental rise at depths of 990-5100 m, mostly in 3500-5000+ m.
Features	Dorsal fin II, 8-10; Pectoral fin i16-i19; Pelvic fin 9-10; Gill rakers (total, outer/inner series) 3-6/9-10; Pyloric caecae 6-8. Head without stout ridges of modified scales; snout long, pointed, tip and lateral angles of snout armed with small tubercular scales with upturned spinules, otherwise naked; mouth large, upper jaw long, reaching hind margin of orbit; upper jaw teeth in narrow band, outer series slightly enlarged, lower jaw teeth in narrow band tapering to one row posteriorly; outer gill slit not restricted, outer gill rakers of first arch, few, weakly developed; chin barbel short, thin. Spinous ray of first dorsal fin elongate, leading edge with few or no serrations; pectoral fin relatively long, rays fine, none thickened or notably prolonged beyond others, outer pelvic ray slightly produced. Body scales large, deciduous, spinules on exposed field reduced or lacking; anus just before anal fin origin, light organ absent.
Size	to about 41 cm TL
Colour	in alcohol; overall pale to brownish, flesh translucent over anal pterygiophores; blackish over abdomen, operculum, and somewhat dusky on underside of head; fins pale except for blackish spinous ray of first dorsal, uppermost ray of pectoral, and outer ray of pelvic.
Conservation	none
Species Citation	Coryphaenoides filicauda Günther 1878, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5)2(2): 27. Type locality: Off Valparaíso, Chile, 33°32'S, 74°43'W
Author	Bray, D.J. 2018
Resources	Australian Faunal Directory

Humphead Whiptail, Coryphaenoides filicauda Günther 1878

References

Günther, A. 1878. Preliminary notices of deep-sea fishes collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 2(2, 22, 28): 17-28, 179-187, 248-251

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Iwamoto, T. 1990. Macrouridae. pp. 192-206 in Gon, O. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds). Fishes of the Southern Ocean. Grahamstown : J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology 462 pp.

Iwamoto, T. & Graham, K.J. 2001. Grenadiers (Families Bathygadidae and Macrouridae, Gadiformes, Pisces) of New South Wales, Australia. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 52(21): 407-509, figs. 1-114 [p. 463] (and p. 460 as Coryphaenoides carapinus)

Iwamoto, T. & McMillan, P.J. 2008. Family Macrouridae. pp. 320-347 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp.

Iwamoto, T. & Y.I. Sazonov. 1988. A review of the southeastern Pacific Coryphaenoides (sensu lato) (Pisces, Gadiformes, Macrouridae). Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 45(3): 35-82, figs. 1-9.

McMillan, P.J. & Iwamoto, T. 2015. 103 Family Macrouridae, pp. 747-827, in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 3 pp. 577-1152.