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Issue: Vol. 3546 No. 1: 12 Nov. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-11-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3546.1.7
Page range: 85–88
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 2

On the synonymy of Caristius groenlandicus Jensen and Pteraclis fasciatus Borodin (Pisces: Caristiidae)

Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
Ichthyology Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
Fish Pisces Caristiidae

Abstract

Manefishes of the family Caristiidae are rare meso-bathypelagic oceanic fishes with numerous problems regarding theirspecies-level taxonomy. We revisit Hartel and Triant’s assertion (Copeia, 1998, 746) that Pteraclis fasciatus Borodin andCaristius groenlandicus Jensen are synonyms. We found additional support for this idea in the modification of theventral unbranched caudal-fin rays. We conclude that the names are synonyms and that fasciatus has priority over groenlandicus because the former is the older name.

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