New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts
Review of trachyrincine grenadier fishes (Pisces: Macrouridae) from New
Zealand, with a description of a new species of Trachyrincus
PETER J. McMILLAN
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
P. O. Box 467
Wellington, New Zealand
Present address: MAF Fisheries, P.O. Box 297, Wellington, New Zealand
Abstract Knowledge of the New Zealand trachyrincine
grenadiers is reviewed. Idiolophorhynchus andriashevi Sazonov, 1981 and
Trachyrincus longirostris (Günther, 1878) are redescribed and
Trachyrincus aphyodes n. sp. is described. T. aphyodes differs
from T. longirostris, with which it has been confused, by having more
pyloric caeca (119-211 cf. 35-62) and a larger mouth (upper jaw length
29.4-34.0 cf. 24.7-28.2% head length). A key to the three known New Zealand
trachyrincine grenadiers is given.
Keywords taxonomy; new species; identification keys;
Macrouridae; grenadiers; rattails; New Zealand; Trachyrincus;
Idiolophorhynchus
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1995: Vol. 29:
83-91
0028-8330/95/2901-0083 $2.50/0 (c) The Royal Society of New Zealand
1995
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