Kuronezumia bubonis
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Gadiformes (Cod, Hakes and others)
Macrouridae (Grenadiers)
Kuronezumia
Kuronezumia bubonis
Description
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Characters
Elongate and attenuated body shape; blunt snout; moderate-sized subterminal mouth; light organ enlarged into a bulbous, scaly, wartlike structure anterior to anus; snout short and not produced; upper jaw extends to about center of eye; head about 15% of TL; snout 26% to 32%, orbit 23% to 31%, premaxilla length 35% to 41%, chin barbel 20% to 29%, and body depth 88% to 109% of head length; jaw teeth villiform and arranged in broad bands; first gill slit greatly restricted; gill rakers tuberculate and number 8 to 10 on inner side of first arch; branchiostegal rays number 7; pectoral fin rays number 23 to 26; first dorsal fin has 12 or 14 rays, first splintlike and second serrated; second dorsal fin distinctly separated from first and has shorter rays than anal fin; pelvic fin has 11 to 13 rays; abdomen has enlarged naked area associated with light organ; anus and urogenital openings surrounded by oval-shaped naked black area (periproct); small scales covered with nearly erect, slender spinules; snout almost entirely covered with small scales; scales on suborbital region small, uniform, and do not form ridge; pyloric caecae number 35 to 39; abdominal vertebrae number 13
Brown to black, with ventral surfaces of head, gill covers, and abdomen black or brownish black
Distribution
Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Habitat Associations
Western Atlantic, central and western Pacific, and Indian Oceans at 585 to 1,300 m
Biology
730 mm TL
A benthic species found on the continental slope (Ref. 75154).
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2009-02-04. Resilience: Very low (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Phylogeny and Morphologically Similar Fishes
Distinguished from other species of the family by the combination of characters described
References
Iwamoto 1974
Uyeno et al. 1983
Cohen et al. 1990
Sazonov and Iwamoto 1992
Shcherbachev et al. 1992
Iwamoto, T. and E. Anderson (1994) Review of the grenadiers (Teleostei: Gadiformes) of southern Africa, with descriptions of four new species. Ichthyol. Bull. J.L.B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol. (61):1-28.
Uyeno, T., K. Matsuura and E. Fujii (eds.) (1983) Fishes trawled off Suriname and French Guiana. Japan Marine Fishery Resource Research Center, Tokyo, Japan. 519 p.
Mundy, B.C. (2005) Checklist of the fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Mus. Bull. Zool. (6):1-704.
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