TY - JOUR

T1 - Careproctus kidoi, a new Arctic species of snailfish (Teleostei

T2 - Liparidae) from Baffin Bay

AU - Knudsen, Steen Wilhelm

AU - Møller, Peter Rask

PY - 2008/5/1

Y1 - 2008/5/1

N2 - Careproctus kidoi sp. nov. is described from the Baffin Bay between Greenland and Canada, in the northern most part of the western North Atlantic. During a series of bottom trawl surveys conducted in 1988-2004, 22 specimens of an undescribed species of Careproctus were caught at depths between 952 and 1,487 m. It differs from Arctic and North Atlantic congeners in the combination of the characters: pectoral fin rays 21-26, dorsal fin rays 54-60, anal fin rays 50-54, vertebrae 61-64; sucking disc oval, 4.2-6.6% SL; teeth simple; pyloric coeca 3-12; head pore formula (2-6-7-1); color light to dark brown, stomach dusky to dark brown, peritoneum black. It is generally found in deeper waters than the sympatric C. reinhardti.

AB - Careproctus kidoi sp. nov. is described from the Baffin Bay between Greenland and Canada, in the northern most part of the western North Atlantic. During a series of bottom trawl surveys conducted in 1988-2004, 22 specimens of an undescribed species of Careproctus were caught at depths between 952 and 1,487 m. It differs from Arctic and North Atlantic congeners in the combination of the characters: pectoral fin rays 21-26, dorsal fin rays 54-60, anal fin rays 50-54, vertebrae 61-64; sucking disc oval, 4.2-6.6% SL; teeth simple; pyloric coeca 3-12; head pore formula (2-6-7-1); color light to dark brown, stomach dusky to dark brown, peritoneum black. It is generally found in deeper waters than the sympatric C. reinhardti.

KW - Deep-sea fishes

KW - Greenland

KW - Nunavut

KW - Polar fishes

U2 - 10.1007/s10228-007-0034-x

DO - 10.1007/s10228-007-0034-x

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:44049088376

VL - 55

SP - 175

EP - 182

JO - Ichthyological Research

JF - Ichthyological Research

SN - 1341-8998

IS - 2

ER -