Author: (Parr, 1946)

Sphagemacrurus grenadae (Parr, 1946)

Diagnosis: head length about 15% of body length; snout with buttonlike tip of scutes with blunt spines, underside almost or completely scaleless; mouth subterminal; chin barbel over half eye diameter; gillrakers 7-9; branchiostegal rays 7. First dorsal fin with 12-13 finrays, the second finray a serrated spine; second dorsal fin beginning shortly behind or well behind anal origin, the finrays very short; pectoral fin with 18-22 finrays; pelvic fin with 11 finrays, its insertion well forward of pectoral fin base. Scales with slightly diverging rows of spinules. Pyloric caeca 8, short and simple. Colour: dark brown to black, mouth, gill cavity and peritoneum black. Size: to over 20 cm TL.

Habitat: benthopelagic at 860-1,430 m. Food: no data. Reproduction: no data.

Distribution: Atlantic, from Morocco to Portugal. Elsewhere, western Atlantic (Straits of Florida to Caribbean).

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

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Gadiformes
Family Macrouridae
Genus Sphagemacrurus
Species Sphagemacrurus grenadae

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Sphagemacrurus grenadae (Parr, 1946)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Sphagemacrurus grenadae (Parr, 1946)

Synonyms:

Grenurus grenadae Parr, 1946, Bull. Bingham Ocean. Coll, 10 (1): 46, fig. 9 (5) and 15. Grenada (West Indies).
Sphagemacrurus grenadae: Marshall & Iwamoto, 1973: 622, fig. 38 Maul, 1976: 30, fig. 13.


Common name:

buttontip grenadier [En]

Marshall, N. B.; Iwamoto, T. 1973. Family Macrouridae. In Fishes of the Westrn North Atlantic. Mem. Sears Found. Mar. Res. New Haven, 1 (6): 496-665, 53 fig.

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: pp. 1-69, 37 fig.

Parr, A. E. 1946. The Macrouridae of the Western north Atlantic and central american seas. Bun. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 10 (1): pp. 1-99, 28 fig.

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