A new deep-sea eelpout of the genus Pyrolycus (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) associated with a hydrothermal seep on the Pacific margin of Costa Rica
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A new deep-sea eelpout of the genus Pyrolycus (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) associated with a hydrothermal seep on the Pacific margin of Costa Rica. / Frable, Benjamin W.; Seid, Charlotte A.; Bronson, Allison W.; Møller, Peter Rask.
In: Zootaxa, Vol. 5230, No. 1, 2023, p. 79-89.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - A new deep-sea eelpout of the genus Pyrolycus (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) associated with a hydrothermal seep on the Pacific margin of Costa Rica
AU - Frable, Benjamin W.
AU - Seid, Charlotte A.
AU - Bronson, Allison W.
AU - Møller, Peter Rask
N1 - Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2023 Magnolia Press.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - A new species of the zoarcid genus Pyrolycus Machida & Hashimoto, 2002, Pyrolycus jaco sp. nov., is described from a hydrothermal seep environment named Jacó Scar in the eastern Pacific of Costa Rica. Four specimens were collected in 2018 between 1746-1795 m among tubeworm colonies around the seep. The new species is differentiated from its two western Pacific congeners by having a shorter head, snout, jaw, and pectoral fins. It is further diagnosed by having three postorbital pores and two occipital pores. Molecular sequences of the cytochrome c oxidase I gene are provided and are the first for the genus. The character states indicating miniaturization in this species are discussed. This is the first vertebrate species known from this composite reducing ecosystem and is the fourth hydrothermally-associated zoarcid from the eastern Pacific.
AB - A new species of the zoarcid genus Pyrolycus Machida & Hashimoto, 2002, Pyrolycus jaco sp. nov., is described from a hydrothermal seep environment named Jacó Scar in the eastern Pacific of Costa Rica. Four specimens were collected in 2018 between 1746-1795 m among tubeworm colonies around the seep. The new species is differentiated from its two western Pacific congeners by having a shorter head, snout, jaw, and pectoral fins. It is further diagnosed by having three postorbital pores and two occipital pores. Molecular sequences of the cytochrome c oxidase I gene are provided and are the first for the genus. The character states indicating miniaturization in this species are discussed. This is the first vertebrate species known from this composite reducing ecosystem and is the fourth hydrothermally-associated zoarcid from the eastern Pacific.
KW - Jacó Scar
KW - Lycodinae
KW - methane seep
KW - Reducing ecosystem
KW - Zoarcoidei
U2 - 10.11646/zootaxa.5230.1.5
DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.5230.1.5
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 37044856
AN - SCOPUS:85147867697
VL - 5230
SP - 79
EP - 89
JO - Zootaxa
JF - Zootaxa
SN - 1175-5326
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 337972890