Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
 | 
Online Publication Date: 01 Feb 2004

Pietschichthys horridus Kharin, 1989: A Junior Synonym of Dermatias platynogaster Smith and Radcliffe, in Radcliffe, 1912 (Lophiiformes: Oneirodidae), with a Revised Key to Oneirodid Genera

and
Page Range: 122 – 127
DOI: 10.1643/CI-03-080R
Save
Download PDF

Abstract

Pietschichthys horridus Kharin, 1989, of the lophiiform suborder Ceratioidei, family Oneirodidae, is shown to be a junior synonym of Dermatias platynogaster Smith and Radcliffe, in Radcliffe, 1912, the latter now known only from the two holotypes, one collected from off the east coast of Luzon in the Philippines, the other from the Magellan Seamounts in the western North Pacific Ocean. The genus and only known species are diagnosed and redescribed, and a revised key to the genera of the Oneirodidae is provided.

Copyright: The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.

Dermatias platynogaster, holotype, USNM 70269, 134 mm SL. After Radcliffe (1912).

Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.

Holotype of Pietschichthys horridus, ZIN 47301, 151 mm SL. After Kharin (1989).

 Fig. 3.
 Fig. 3.

Subopercle of Dermatias platynogaster, holotype, USNM 70269, 134 mm SL, right lateral view.

 Fig. 4.
 Fig. 4.

Escae of Dermatias platynogaster, left lateral views: Holotype, USNM 70269, 134 mm SL (left); holotype of Pietschichthys horridus, ZIN 47301, 151 mm SL (right; after Kharin, 1989)

Contributor Notes

(TWP) School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Box 355020, Seattle, Washington 98195–5020; and (VEK) Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690041, Russia. (TWP)twp@u.washington.edu Send reprint requests to TWP.

Accepted: 11 Aug 2003
  • Download PDF