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Revision of the bathyal fish genusHomostolus (Ophidiiformes, Ophidiidae)

Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 1992
The ophidiid fish genusHomostolus is revised on the basis of 44 specimens. Meristic and morphometric characters strongly indicate that the genus as presently known contains a single species,Homostolus acer Smith et Radcliffe, 1913, withHomostolus japonicus Matsubara, 1943, reduced to synonymy.
Yoshihiko Machida, Osamu Okamura
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A Miocene cusk-eel (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae) from Península Valdés, Argentina

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2001
Genypterus valdesensis, sp. nov. from the Puerto Madryn Formation in Peninsula Valdes, Argentina is the first fossil ophidiid reported from South America and represents the first well preserved record of the genus worldwide. The specimen consists of a nearly complete articulated skull and some disarticulated postcranial elements. A thorough description
Mario A Cozzuol
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A new species of Abyssobrotula (Ophidiiformes, Ophidiidae) from the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench

Zootaxa, 2016
A new abyssal ophidiid fish, Abyssobrotula hadropercularis, is described on the basis of two specimens caught at two stations at ca. 5000 meters of depth in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench. The genus Abyssobrotula Nielsen, 1977 was previously known from the type species, A. galatheae Nielsen, 1977 of which 40–50 specimens now are reported from all oceans at
Ohashi, Shinpei, Nielsen, Jørgen
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A Cretaceous Cusk-Eel (Teleostei, Ophidiiformes) from Italy and the Mesozoic Diversification of Percomorph Fishes

Copeia, 2015
Cusk-eels of the order Ophidiiformes are a morphologically diverse assemblage of eel-like, elongate, posteriorly tapering percomorph fishes that occur worldwide in marine waters, from tropical reef areas to the deep sea. The about 400 extant and fossil species included in the ophidiiform clade are arranged into two main lineages, Bythitoidei and ...
Giorgio Carnevale, G David Johnson
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New records of Aphyonidae (Teleostei: Ophidiiformes) from the south‐western Atlantic

Journal of Fish Biology, 2007
During austral summer and winter of 2003, three specimens of Aphyonus gelatinosus and one specimen of Barathronus bicolor (Ophidiiformes: Aphyonidae) were trawled off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
M. A. L. Franco, P. A. S. Costa, A. C. Braga   +2 more
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First record of Bellottia apoda (Ophidiiformes, Bythitidae) from irish waters (North-eastern Atlantic)

Journal of Ichthyology, 2013
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Francisco Baldo
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Systematics of the Ophidiid Genus Spectrunculus (Teleostei: Ophidiiformes) with Resurrection of S. crassus

Copeia, 2008
Abstract The systematics of the abyssal giant cusk-eel genus Spectrunculus was revised, based on the examination of 55 specimens recently collected from the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge and 32 specimens from earlier collections in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The conclusion of Nielsen and Hureau that only one sexually dimorphic species, S.
Uiblein, Franz, Nielsen, Jørgen, Møller, Peter Rask   +2 more
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Revision of the Indo-West pacific bathyal fish genusGlyptophidium (Ophidiiformes, Ophidiidae)

Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 1988
The ophidiid genusGlyptophidium is revised on the basis of 280 specimens. The seven recognized species fall into two well-defined species-groups: I.argenteum species-group withargenteum Alcock, 1889,effulgens sp. nov. andlucidum Smith et Radcliffe, 1913 is characterized i.a.
Jørgen G. Nielsen, Yoshihiko Machida
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Grammonus yunokawai (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae), a new marine cavefish from the Ryukyu Islands

Ichthyological Research, 2007
A new species of the fish genus Grammonus (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) is described based on a ripe female, 98 mm in standard length (SL). It was caught at the bottom of a cave at a depth of 20 m under lightless conditions in Ie-shima Island, one of the Ryukyu Islands.
Jørgen G Nielsen
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A new species of Timorichthys (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) from the East China Sea

Ichthyological Research, 2013
A new bythitid fish, Timorichthys angustus, is described on the basis of a single specimen (52 mm in standard length, SL) collected from the East China Sea, Japan. The genus Timorichthys Nielsen and Schwarzhans 2011 was only known from the holotype of the type species Timorichthys disjunctus Nielsen and Schwarzhans 2011 caught in the Timor Sea. The new
Nielsen, Jørgen, Okamoto, Makoto, Schwarzhans, Werner   +2 more
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