New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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New grenadier fishes of the genus Coryphaenoides (Pisces: Macrouridae); one from off New Zealand and one widespread in the southern Indo-West Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

PETER J. MCMILLAN^*

Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa
P. O. Box 467
Wellington, New Zealand

^*Present address: National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd, P. O. Box 14 901,  Wellington, New Zealand. email: p.mcmillan@niwa.cri.nz

Abstract  Two new species of macrourid fishes of the genus Coryphaenoides from New Zealand are described. Coryphaenoides dossenus n. sp. is widespread on the continental slope at 480-1464 m and shows sexual dimorphism with the largest male about half the length of the largest female. It is also known from the Tasman Sea, Coral Sea, Indian Ocean, and the eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean south of c. 6[[ordmasculine]] S. Coryphaenoides microstomus n. sp. is known only from four specimens collected from a single station at 1550-1720 m off the east coast of the North Island, New Zealand.

Keywords  taxonomy; new species; Macrouridae; grenadiers; New Zealand; Coryphaenoides

M98088
Received 22 December 1998; accepted 17 February 1999

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