Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist
Author
Mucientes, Gonzalo
Author
Arronte, Juan Carlos
text
Zootaxa
2010
2667
1
27
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.276366
9090b504-84cb-4077-a79e-ad43fc9b0c3d
1175-5326
276366
ORDER
MYCTOPHIFORMES
Family
Neoscopelidae
Neoscopelus macrolepidotus
Johnson,
1863
— Large-scaled lantern fish Not mentioned for Galicia by Hulley in Whitehead
et al.
(
1986
). Recorded from Galicia by Bañón
et al.
(
2002
).
**
Neoscopelus microchir
Matsubara,
1943
— No common name Not mentioned for Galicia by Hulley in Whitehead
et al.
(
1986
). Recorded from the Galicia Bank (Bañón
et al.
,
1997
).
Family
Myctophidae
Myctophum punctatum
Rafinesque,
1810
— Spotted lanternfish
Diaphus dumerilii
(Bleeker,
1856
)
— No common name
Ten specimens between
4
and
8 cm
TL caught at
365–563 m
depth during “Demersales
97
and 06” surveys
Ceratoscopelus maderensis
(Lowe,
1839
)
— No common name
Ceratoscopelus warmingii
(Lütken,
1892
)
— No common name
Uncertain status. Reported by Hulley in Whitehead
et al.
(
1986
) to south of
35
ºN and it is unreported by
Quéro
et al.
(
2003
)
. Recorded for Galicia by Lozano y Rey (
1947
) as
Lampanyctus townsendi
, a synonym of
C. warmingii
. A revision of new specimens is needed.
Lampadena urophaos atlantica
Maul,
1969
— No common name
Uncertain status. Not mentioned for Galicia neither by Hulley in Whitehead
et al.
(
1986
) nor by
Quéro (
2003
)
. Recorded from Galicia by
Arté (
1952
)
and
Anadón (
1957
)
as
L. nitida
. Questionable as a synonym of
L. urophaos atlantica
(
Solórzano
et al.
,
1988
)
. A revision of new specimens is required.
Lampadena speculigera
Goode & Bean,
1896
— Mirror lanternfish
One specimen of
4 cm
TL caught at
228 m
depth during the survey “Demersales
93
”
Lampanyctus crocodilus
(Risso,
1810
)
— Jewel lanternfish
Lampanyctus photonotus
Parr,
1928
— No common name
Lampanyctus intricarius
Taning,
1928
— No common name
One specimen of
17 cm
TL caught during the survey “Demersales 02”
Notoscopelus kroeyeri
(Malm,
1861
)
— Lancet fish
Reported from Galicia by
Solórzano
et al.
(
1988
)
as
N. elongatus
.
Benthosema glaciale
(Reinhardt,
1838
)
— Glacier lanternfish