New Species of Deep-Sea Ceratioid Anglerfish, Oneirodes pietschi (Lophiiformes: Oneirodidae), from the North Pacific Ocean
A new deep-sea ceratioid anglerfish of the genus Oneirodes Lütken is described on the basis of three specimens collected from off Hawaii, Japan, and the southwest coast of Taiwan. The new species, Oneirodes pietschi, should belong to the member of the Oneirodes schmidti-group, in having a relatively long illicium and subopercular bone. It differs from all known species of the O. schmidti-group, as well as from all previously described species of the genus, in details of its escal morphology.Abstract
Oneirodes pietschi n.sp., holotype, 100 mm, AZISP 061822.
Opercular bones of Oneirodes pietschi n. sp.: (A) Holotype, 100 mm, AZISP 061822; (B) Paratype, 117 mm, HUMZ 130128. o: opercular bone; so: subopercular bone
Escae of Oneirodes pietschi n. sp.: (A) Paratype, 70 mm, BSKU 20236; (B) Holotype, 100 mm, AZISP 061822; C. Paratype, 117 mm, HUMZ 130128. al: anterolateral appendage; p: posterior appendage; m: medial appendage; tp: terminal appendage; pp: posterior pore
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(H-CH) Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung; and (K-TS) Laboratory of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, 115 Taipei, Taiwan. (K-TS) zoskt@gate.sinica.edu.tw Send reprint requests to K-TS.