A new species of Leptoderma Vaillant, 1886 (Osmeriformes: Alepocephalidae) from the Pacific coast of Central America

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2016-01-18

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Angulo, Arturo [UNESP]
Baldwin, Carole C.
Robertson, D. Ross

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Magnolia Press

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A new species of Leptoderma Vaillant, 1886 is described from a single specimen trawled at 1368-1406 m depth off El Salvador, Central America, tropical eastern Pacific. Leptoderma ospesca n. sp. can be readily distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characters: dermal papillae absent along the lateral line, pectoral-fin rays 6, pelvicfin rays 5, pre-dorsal length 54.9% of SL, both dorsal and anal fins separated from the caudal fin, dorsal- and anal-fin rays long, procurrent caudal-fin rays numerous and extending far forward on caudal peduncle, caudal-fin rays 16, and total preural vertebrae 60. A key to the species of the genus is presented.

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Deep sea, eel-slickheads, El Salvador, tropical eastern Pacific Ocean

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Zootaxa. Auckland: Magnolia Press, v. 4066, n. 4, p. 493-500, 2016.