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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderGadiformes
  4. ›familyMerlucciidae
  5. ›genusSteindachneria
Steindachneria argentea
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Luminous Hake

Steindachneria argentea Goode & Bean, 1896

Also calledMerlu lumineux (fra) · Merluza Luminosa (spa) · granadero luminoso (spa) · mollera luminosa (spa) · štikozubec svítivý (ces) · Серебристая штейндахнерия (rus) · ヒカリダラ (jpn)

First described in: Goode, G.B.; Bean, T.H. (1896). Oceanic Ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. <em>Spec. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.</em> Text: 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553. Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26. Pls. 123.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution. First record of Steindachneria argentea in the WSA. Collected from off Bahia, at depths from 100 to 607. It was described from off the Mississippi delta, Gulf of Mexico (39 ° 14 ’ N, 88 ° 09 ’ W), and is known from the Straits of Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and Venezuela (Cohen et al. 1990); more recently, Hartel et al. (2008) recorded it in southern Hudson Canyon, off New England, considerably increasing the known distribution of the species.

On new collections of deep-sea Gadiformes (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) from the Brazilian continental slope, between 11 ° and 23 ° S

materials_examined

Material examined. 202 specimens: MNRJ 26928 (3, 272.0 – 364.0 mm), T, E- 510; MNRJ 27021 (1, 136.0 mm), T, E- 533; MNRJ 27022 (9, 92.0 – 132.0 mm), T, E- 516; MNRJ 27023 (8, 81.0 – 295.0 mm), T, E- 521; MNRJ 27024 (19, 217.0 – 284.0 mm), T, E- 502; MNRJ 27025 (15, 213.0 – 271.0 mm), T, E- 495; MNRJ 27026 (5, 188.0 – 261.0 mm), T, E- 511; MNRJ 27027 (5, 201.0 – 236.0 mm), T, E- 500; MNRJ 27028 (17, 213.0 – 264.0 mm), T, E- 508; MNRJ 27034 (2, 207.0 – 228.0 mm), T, E- 518; MNRJ 27117 (114, 75.0 – 240.0 mm), T, D- 538; MNRJ 27129 (2, ca. 200.0, cs.), T, D- 538; UF 165824 (2, 230.0 – 232.0 mm), T, E- 502.

On new collections of deep-sea Gadiformes (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) from the Brazilian continental slope, between 11 ° and 23 ° S

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