Author: Günther, 1867

Antonogadus macrophthalmus Günther, 1867

Diagnosis: a small deepwater three-bearded rockling. Eye moderately large, greater than inter-orbital width. Gape very large, always more than half head length and reaching beyond level of orbit; anterior teeth in upper jaw fang-like. Second dorsal fin with 53-59 finrays, its origin at 32.4-35.3% of SL; anal finrays 45-50. Vertebrae 45-46. Colour: back mottled with medium brown, flanks reddish becoming pink ventrally. Size: to 10 cm SL.

Habitat: benthic, possibly bathypelagic, over mud and grey sand bottoms, always well offshore. Food: galatheid and crangonid crustaceans. Reproduction: perhaps in early spring; pelagic early juveniles caught in June over 130 m.

Distribution: Faroe-Shetland Channel south to Bay of Biscay along lower continental shelf.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Gadiformes
Family Gadidae
Genus Antonogadus
Species Antonogadus macrophthalmus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Synonym of Gaidropsarus macrophthalmus (Günther, 1867)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Antonogadus macrophthalmus Günther, 1867

Synonyms:

Motella macrophthalmus Günther, 1867, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (3) 20: 290, pl. V (fig. B) (Hebrides islands). Holotype: BMNH no. 1866.12.3.3.
Onus macrophthalmus: Günther, 1887: 96 Collett, 1892: 8.
Onus carpenteri: Günther, 1887, Challenger Reports, 22 (57): 97, pl. XLII (fig. D) ('between Shetland and Faroe'). Holotype: BMNH no. 1874. 1.10. 16.
Onus biscayensis Collett, 1890, Bull. Soc. zool. France, 15: 107 ('Golfe de Gascogne, Cap Finistère'). Holotype: BMNH no. 1934.12.19.36; paratype: unknown.
Onus biscayensis: Moreau, 1891: 135 Collett, 1896b: 65.
Antonogadus macrophthalmus: Wheeler, 1969: 265 Maul, 1976: 35, fig. 16 (Portugal, Morocco).
Gaidropsarus biscayensis (part.): Bini, 1971, 3: 85.

Common names:

bigeye rockling [En]
motelle à trois barbillons [Fr]
rockling [En]

Collett, R. 1890. Diagnoses de poissons nouveaux provenant des campagnes de l"Hirondelle'. Bull. Soc. zool. Fr., 15: 105-109.

Collett, R. 1892. Oversigt over de tri-cirrate arter of slaegten Onus. Forh. Vidensk. Selsk. Krist., 1891, 11: 1-17.

Collett, R. 1896b. Poissons provenant des campagnes du yacht l"Hirondelle' (1885-88). Résult. Camp. scient. Prince Albert 1, 10: viii+198 p., pl. I-VI.

Günther, A. 1867. Additions to the British fauna. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (3) 20: 288-291, pl. V.

Günther, A. 1887. Report on the Deep-sea Fishes collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. Challenger Reports, Zool., 22: Ixv+268 p., 7 fig., 66 pl.

Maul, G. E. 1976. The fishes taken in bottom trawls by R. V. Meteor during the 1967 Seamount Cruises in the Northeast Atlantic. Meteor Forsch. Ergebnisse, 22: 1-69.

Moreau, E. 1881-1891. Histoire naturelle des poissons de la France, Paris, I, 1881: I-VII+ 1-480, fig. 1-82; II, 1881: 1-572, fig. 83-145; III, 1881: 1-697, fig. 146-220; Suppl., 1891: 1-144, fig. 221-227.

Wheeler, A. 1969. The Fishes of the British Isles and North-West Europe. Macmillan, London, Melbourne and Toronto: i-xvii+1-163, 5+177 fig., +392 fig. (princ. sp.)+92 n. num. fig., 16 pl., maps.

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