A New Species of Ceratioid Anglerfish of the Genus Dolopichthys (Pisces: Lophiiformes) from the Western North Atlantic Ocean

Copeia ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 1987 (2) ◽  
pp. 406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven L. Leipertz ◽  
Theodore W. Pietsch
1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 997-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale R. Calder

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.


1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana R. Laubitz ◽  
Eric L. Mills

Five species of Caprellidea (Amphipoda) occur on a benthic transect between Gay Head, Massachusetts and Bermuda. Three species, Caprella rinki Stephensen, Mayerella limicola Huntsman, and Proaeginina norvegica (Stephensen) are refigured and redescribed. A new species of Thorina and a new genus and species are described from bathyal and abyssal depths. All five species are arctic–boreal in affinities and may be expected to range south only to Cape Hatteras on the continental slope, but much farther south at abyssal depths.


Copeia ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (2) ◽  
pp. 374-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter R. Møller ◽  
Thea K. Feld ◽  
Idahella H. Poulsen ◽  
Philip F. Thomsen ◽  
Jonas G. Thormar

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4679 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-256
Author(s):  
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN

The viviparous genus Barathronus Goode & Bean, 1886 is known from 11 species. Examination of 68 specimens, not earlier published upon, and re-examination of older material have resulted in taxonomical changes and new distributions. B. unicolor Nielsen, 1984 has become a junior synonym of B. pacificus Nielsen & Eagle, 1974, now known from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The number of specimens of B. parfaiti Vaillant, 1888 is restricted to the holotype and a specimen from off the Azores (MOM P01-0003665), often referred to B. parfaiti, represents a new species, B. roulei, herein described. B. diaphanus Brauer, 1906 is now recorded from off Madagascar eastwards to Tonga and Fiji Islands. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3647 (2) ◽  
pp. 343 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUAN CARLOS RANDO ◽  
JOSEP ANTONI ALCOVER ◽  
STORRS L. OLSON ◽  
HARALD PIEPER

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4282 (3) ◽  
pp. 567 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.C RANDO ◽  
H. PIEPER ◽  
STORRS L. OLSON ◽  
F. PEREIRA ◽  
J.A. ALCOVER

A new species of extinct bullfinch, Pyrrhula crassa n. sp., is described from bones found in Furna do Calcinhas, a small cave situated at Caldeira, a volcano located in the southeastern portion of the Graciosa Island (Azores archipelago, North Atlantic Ocean). It is the first extinct passerine bird to be described from this archipelago. Both skull and post-cranial bones are larger in the new species than in its relatives, the Eurasian Bullfinch (P. pyrrhula) and the Azores Bullfinch or “Priolo” from São Miguel Island (P. murina), the new species being the largest known in this genus. The morphology of its humerus and the estimated wing length and surface area seem to indicate a flying ability similar to that of the extant P. murina. The possible sources of colonization of the genus into Azores, causes and chronology of extinction of the new species are discussed 


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