identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03E50E77D648FFC13C82AE6E4C9EFE51.text	03E50E77D648FFC13C82AE6E4C9EFE51.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gigantactis microdontis Bertelsen, Pietsch, and Lavenberg 1981	<div><p>Gigantactis microdontis Bertelsen, Pietsch, and Lavenberg, 1981 (Figs. 1, 2)</p> <p>Gigantactis sp. 2: Parin et al., 1973: 146 (19.5-mm metamorphosal stage; eastern tropical Pacific, 12° 30’ S, 87°45’ W, 0–100 m); Parin et al., 1977: 156 (107 mm SL, western tropical Pacific Ocean, 7° 57’ N, 135° 53’ E, 0–1000 m).</p> <p>Gigantactis microdontis Bertelsen et al., 1981: 54, figs. 56–58, 67 (original description, seven specimens, 19.5–127 mm SL, eastern Pacific); Bertelsen and Pietsch, 2002: 959, 961, fig. 3D (comparison with congeners, in key); Love et al., 2005: 62 (eastern North Pacific); Walther-Mendoza et al., 2013: 413, tabl. 1 (in list, LACM 30284, 32204, off Guadalupe Island).</p> <p>Material. IOM 3596, female (Fig. 1A), 110 mm SL, western tropical <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=135.88333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=7.95" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 135.88333/lat 7.95)">Pacific Ocean</a>, 7° 57’ N, 135° 53’ E, Isaacs-Kidd midwater trawl no. 87, fished open between 0–1000 m, 3300 m wire out, 5:42–6:42 hours, R/ V Vityaz, cruise 57, station 7297, sample no. 199, 29 March 1975.</p> <p>Description. Illicium without lateral filaments, nearly cylindrical throughout length; escal bulb (Fig. 1B) clubshaped, without dermal spinules, pigmented only near base and on distal part of short distal prolongation; distal patch of pigment oblong in shape, tapering posteriorly towards pore of photophore; 13 unpigmented stalked filaments, arising from distal surface of bulb just inside edge of distal pigment patch in two nearly parallel, lateral series that meet anteriorly; escal filaments short, length approximately equal to diameter of bulb, spatulate and compressed distally.</p> <p>Dorsal-fin rays 5, anal-fin rays 5, pectoral-fin rays 16, caudal-fin rays 9, free nearly to base. Number of premaxillary teeth 20; number of dentary teeth 31. Measurements in percent of SL: illicial length 245.5, length of esca (excluding distal filaments) 6.4, caudal peduncle length 32.7, longest caudal-fin rays (second and seventh) 37.3, longest dentary and premaxillary tooth 0.7 and 0.9, respectively.</p> <p>Remarks. Parin et al. (1977: 156) measured SL of 107 mm for this specimen; however, we measured 110 mm from the tip of the pterygiophore of the illicium to the posteriormost margin of the hypural plate. It may reflect a different scheme of measurements.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E50E77D648FFC13C82AE6E4C9EFE51	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Prokofiev, Artem M.;Pietsch, Theodore W.	Prokofiev, Artem M., Pietsch, Theodore W. (2019): First Record of the Ceratioid Anglerfish Species Gigantactis microdontis (Teleostei: Lophiiformes: Gigantactinidae) in the Western Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 4664 (3): 441-444, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4664.3.11
