Author: Johnson, 1866

Gephyroberyx darwini Johnson, 1866

Diagnosis: teeth small, in bands, with inner row enlarged, along upper jaws, antenor part of lower jaw and palatines; posteriorly in lower jaw one single row of enlarged teeth; on vomer triangular patch. D VIII (rarely VII) + 13; A III + 11; P 13-15. Colour: back brownish-red, head rose-coloured, sides rosy silvery, fins red; tongue and gill cavity blackish; palate white to red. Size: to 48 cm SL.

Habitat: at depths from about 70 to 500 m, close to or on bottom. Behaviour: widely scattered. Food: small shrimps and fish have been found in stomachs of two young specimens. Reproduction: no data.

Distribution: in Clofnam area apparently only known from Madeira.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). Schmidt, 1968: 25, fig. 56.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Beryciformes
Family Trachichthyidae
Genus Gephyroberyx
Species Gephyroberyx darwini

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Synonym of Gephyroberyx darwinii (Johnson, 1866)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Gephyroberyx darwini Johnson, 1866

Synonyms:

Trachichthys darwini Johnson, 1866, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond.: 311, pl. XXXII (Madeira). Holotype: BMNH no. 1866.6.1.2.
Trachichthys japonicus Steindachner & Doderlein, 1883, Denkschr. K Akad. Wiss. Wien, 47: 218, pl. 2.
Trachichthys darwini: Günther, 1887, 22: 24 Goode & Bean, 1896: 188, fig. 207.
Gephyroberyx darwini: Barnard, 1925: 361 Fowler, 1936: 544-545, fig. 257 Navarro, 1943, (18): 130 Smith, 1950: 152, pl. 8 (fig. 291) Maul, 1954a: 25.


Common names:

none

Daiber, F. C. 1954. An American record for the berycoid fish Gephyroberyx darwini. Copeia, 1954: 293.

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 steamers Blake, Albatross and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic. Smithson. Contrib. Knowl., 30 and Spec. Bull U.S. natn. Mus., 1895 [1896] and Mem. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 1 (Text): pp. xxxv+1-553; 2 (Atlas): pp. xxiii+1-26, 123 pl., 417 fig.

Günther, A. 1878. Preliminary notices of Deep-Sea Fishes Collected during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (5) 2: pp. 17-28, pp. 179-187, pp. 248-251.

Johnson, J. Y. 1866. Description of Trachichthys darwini, a new species of berycoid fish from Madeira. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond.: 311-315.

Maul, G. E. 1954a. Monografia dos Peixes do Museu Municipal do Funchal. Ordem Berycomorphi. Bolm Mus. munic. Funchal, 7 (17): pp. 1-41, 13 fig.

Navarro, F. de, et al. 1943. La pesca de arrastre en los fundos del Cabo blanco y del banco Arguin (Africa sahariana). Trab. Inst. Esp. Oceanogr., (18): pp. 1-225, pl. IXXXVIII.

Schmidt, W. 1968. Vergleichend morphologische Studie über die Otolithen mariner Knochenfische. Arch. FischWiss., 19 (1): pp. 1-96, 184 fig., 25 pl.

Smith, J. L. B. 1949b. The sea fishes of southern Africa. South Africa, 580 p., 111 pl., 1232 fig. (other editions: 1950, 1953, 1961, 1965, 1970).

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