Scalicus hians (Gilbert & Cramer 1897)

Summary:

A reddish peristediid with an equilateral-triangular shaped rostral projection, a blackish pectoral fin, mottled soft dorsal, caudal and pelvic fins, outer barbels blackish distally, and no antrorse spines on the bony plates along the upper lateral row.

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Bray, D.J. 2023, Scalicus hians in Fishes of Australia, accessed 05 Apr 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/5712

Scalicus hians (Gilbert & Cramer 1897)

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Distribution	Muirfield Seamount, Coco (Keeling) Islands, eastern Indian Ocean. Elsewhere the species occurs in tropical to temperate Indo-west-central Pacific, from the Western Indian Ocean to Japan and Hawaii at depths of 205–780 m(Fig. 4).
Features	A species of Scalicus with an equilateral-triangular rostral projection, rostral projection width 0.79–1.25 in rostral projection length; 7 (rarely 6 or 8) lipbarbels (having single branch on or near base of filamentous barbel) and 3 (rarely 4) chin barbels; filamentous barbel with 22–39 branches; filamentous barbel lacking membrane between its each base, its length16.2–48.2% SL; posterior-most chin barbel divided into two branches at base (rarely not branched or with three branches); antrorse spines on posterior bony plates of upper lateral row absent.
Etymology	The specific name hians is from the Latin hio (= gaping, open).
Species Citation	Peristedion hians Gilbert & Cramer 1897, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 19(1114): 419, Pl. 41 (figs. 1-2). Type locality: Hawaiian Islands, 21°12'00"N, 157°49'00"W, Albatross station 3472, depth 295-343 fathoms.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2023
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Scalicus hians (Gilbert & Cramer 1897)

References

Alcock, A.W. 1898. Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey ship `Investigator,' Commander T. H. Heming, R. N., commanding.-Series II., No. 25. A note on the deep-sea fishes, with descriptions of some new genera and species, including another probably viviparous ophidioid. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser 7) 2(no. 8) (art. 22): 136-156 See ref at BHL(described as Peristethus investigatoris, type locality Andaman Sea)

Gilbert, C.H. & Cramer, F. 1897. Report on the fishes dredged in deep water near the Hawaiian Islands, with descriptions and figures of twenty-three new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 19(1114): 403-435, Pls. 36-48. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.19-1114.403

Jordan, D.S. & Starks, E.C. 1904. List of fishes dredged by the steamer Albatross off the coast of Japan in the summer of 1900, with descriptions of new species and a review of the Japanese Macrouridae. Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission 22[1902]: 577-630, Pls. 1-8. See ref at BHL (described as Persitedion amiscus, type locality Off Manazuru Point, Sagami Bay, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan)

Kawai, T. 2008. Phylogenetic systematics of the family Peristediidae (Teleostei: Actiopterygii). Species Diversity 13: 1-34.

Kawai, T. 2019. Revision of an armored searobin genus Scalicus Jordan 1923 (Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Peristediidae) with a single new species. Ichthyological Research 66(4): 437-459 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-019-00691-z (lectotype designation)

Richards, W.J. 1999. Family Triglidae. pp. 2359-2382 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. 4 pp. 2069-2790 (as Satyrichthys hians)