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Issue: Vol. 1580 No. 1: 10 Sep. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-09-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1580.1.5
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 19

A new species of Cottunculus (Teleostei: Psychrolutidae) from  the Mid Atlantic Ridge

Dept. Natural History - Zoology, Bergen Museum, University of Bergen, Muséplass 3, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
VNIRO, 17 V, Krasnoselskaya, Moscow, 107140, Russia
Teleostei Psychrolutidae Cottunculus Mid Atlantic Ridge MAR-ECO

Abstract

Cottunculus tubulosus n.sp. is described from one specimen caught in the summer of 2004 in the Northeast Atlantic, at about 2000 m depth in the Mid Atlantic Ridge. The species is characterised by a slender body, a long head, large pointed cranial spines, large bony tubules along the lateral line, prominent dermal prickles along the back, dorsal and anal fins set far posterior, a short caudal peduncle, and no banded colour patterns. From morphological characters, the species seems closely related to the South African species C. spinosus.

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