Line Fishing for Black Scabbardfish (Aphanopus carbo Lowe, 1839) and Other Deep Water Species in the Eastern Mid Atlantic to the North of Madeira

Four deep-water species of stalked barnacles were collected by the manned submersibles Jiaolong and Shenhaiyongshi during recent expeditions. Trianguloscalpellum regium (Wyville-Thomson, 1873), collected from the Mariana Trench at a depth of 5,462 m, represents a new distribution record. Glyptelasma gigas (Annandale, 1916), Poecilasma litum Pilsbry, 1907 and Poecilasma obliqua Hoek, 1907, collected from the South China Sea, are recorded for the first time from a mud volcano environment. Detailed photographs of these four species are presented and their partial sequences of 16S rRNA and mt COI genes are provided.

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Taxonomic review of the genus Opaliopsis (Gastropoda: Nystiellidae) from Brazil, with description of a new species

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ◽

10.1017/s0025315411000026 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 91 (7) ◽

pp. 1561-1566 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Bruno Garcia Andrade ◽

Paulo Márcio Santos Costa ◽

Alexandre Dias Pimenta

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Deep Water ◽

Brazilian Coast ◽

Western Atlantic ◽

The North ◽

North Eastern ◽

Deep Water Species ◽

First Time ◽

A New Species ◽

Water Species

The genus Opaliopsis from Brazil is revised based on three deep-water species. Opaliopsis atlantis (Clench & Turner, 1952) is confirmed as occurring in north-eastern and south-eastern localities. Opaliopsis opalina (Dall, 1927) is reported for the first time in the south-western Atlantic. A new species, Opaliopsis cearense, is described from the north-eastern Brazilian coast, and is distinguished by its large number of fine spiral cords per teleoconch whorl.

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Caryophyllia sarsiae n.sp. and other recent deep-water Caryophyllia (Scleractina) previously referred to little-known fossil species (C. arcuata, C. cylindracea)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ◽

10.1017/s0025315400057568 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 54 (4) ◽

pp. 767-784 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

H. Zibrowius

Keyword(s):

Deep Water ◽

Deep Sea ◽

World Wide ◽

Fossil Species ◽

The North ◽

North Eastern ◽

The World ◽

Deep Water Species ◽

Different Depths ◽

Water Species

Three deep-water species of the north-eastern Atlantic have been studied: Caryophyllia abyssorum Duncan, 1873, C. calveri Duncan, 1873, C. sarsiae n.sp. Of these only C. abyssorum has not been found in the Mediterranean. In the north-eastern Atlantic these species appear characteristic of somewhat different depths, but occasionally can be found together. Obtained by early deep-sea expeditions (“Porcupine” cruise of 1870, cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco), all three species have been previously confused and assigned, chiefly, to the little-known fossil species C. arcuata and C. cylindracea. In order to show the world-wide confusion about C. arcuata, some other records, from Cape Verde Islands to Japan through Antarctica, are quoted.

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First Specimens of the Marine Eels Venefica ocella and V. tentaculata (Nettastomatidae) from British Columbia

The Canadian Field-Naturalist ◽

10.22621/cfn.v126i3.1362 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 126 (3) ◽

pp. 210 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Gavin F. Hanke ◽

Steven M. Roias

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Deep Water ◽

North American ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Survey Sampling ◽

Bottom Trawl ◽

The North ◽

Deep Water Species ◽

By Catch ◽

Water Species

Until recently, only the following seven species of marine eels were known to exist in waters off British Columbia (based on literature sources and museum records): Nemichthys scolopaceus, and Avocettina infans (Nemichthyidae, snipe eels), Xenomystax atrarius (Congridae, conger eels), Serrivomer jesperseni (Serrivomeridae, sawtooth eels), Cyema atrum (Cyematidae, bobtail eels), Synaphobranchus affinis (Synaphobranchidae, cutthroat eels), and Thalassenchelys coheni (Colocongridae, worm eels). Histiobranchus bathybius (also in the Synaphobranchidae) is expected to occur in British Columbia, since its range extends from Mexico to Alaska. Recent surveys to determine the viability of crab fisheries facilitated the collection of non-game fishes from by-catch in bottom-trawl samples. Several eels were collected between 2004 and 2006, and they were originally identified as Serrivomer jesperseni (Serrivomeridae). Re-examination of these specimens indicates that they all are duckbill eels (Nettastomatidae), the first records of this family north of 45°39'N along the North American Pacific coast. Both Venefica ocella and V. tentaculata are represented, with V. ocella found farther north than V. tentaculata. All British Columbia specimens are housed at the Royal British Columbia Museum. The collection of new deep-water species in British Columbia reinforces the value of survey sampling to improve our knowledge of biodiversity.

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Bougainvillia aberrans (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), a new species of hydroid and medusa from the upper bathyal zone off Bermuda

Canadian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1139/z93-132 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 71 (5) ◽

pp. 997-1002 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Dale R. Calder

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Atlantic Ocean ◽

North Atlantic ◽

Deep Water ◽

North Atlantic Ocean ◽

Deep Water Species ◽

A New Species ◽

Water Species

Bougainvillia aberrans n.sp. is described from Bermuda in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Specimens were collected at a depth of 150 fathoms (274 m) from the polypropylene buoy line of a crab trap. The hydroid colony of B. aberrans is erect, with a polysiphonic hydrocaulus, a smooth to somewhat wrinkled perisarc, hydranths having a maximum of about 16 tentacles, and medusa buds arising only from hydranth pedicels. Medusae liberated in the laboratory from these hydroids differ from all other known species of the genus in having a long, spindle-shaped manubrium, lacking oral tentacles, having marginal tentacles reduced to mere stubs, and being very short-lived (surviving for a few hours at most). Gonads develop in medusa buds while they are still attached to the hydroids, and gametes are shed either prior to liberation of the medusae or shortly thereafter. The eggs are surrounded by an envelope bearing nematocysts (heterotrichous microbasic euryteles). The cnidome of both hydroid and medusa stages consists of desmonemes and heterotrichous microbasic euryteles. The diagnosis of the genus Bougainvillia is modified to accommodate this new deep-water species.

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