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Revision Of The Bathyal Fish Genus Benthocometes (Teleostei: Ophidiidae) With A New Species From Off Nw Australia
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Jorgen G. Nielsen

The bathyal genus Benthocometes (Teleostei: Ophidiidae) is revised based on 29 specimens from the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea and one from off NW Australia. Examination of the Atlantic and Mediterranean material confirmed the synonomizing of the three Atlantic species, B. robustus, B. armatum and B. muraenolepis. The Australian specimen represents a new species, B. australiensis, differing from B. robustus in e.g. the number of long rakers on the anterior gill arch, the form of the palatine dentition and the predorsal and upper jaw lengths.

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... The robust cusk-eel Benthocometes robustus is a small size bathydemersal ophidiiform (15 cm max TL), with scattered records from bottom fishing in both the eastern and western Atlantic as well as the Mediterranean (Nielsen et al., 1999). With a short and stubby appearance, B. robustus is the only Atlantic species of the genus (Bougis and Ruivo, 1954;Nielsen, 2010), rendering identification from imagery data possible. ...

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Cold-water corals and large hydrozoans provide essential fish habitat for Lappanella fasciata and Benthocometes robustus
Revision Of The Bathyal Fish Genus Benthocometes (Teleostei: Ophidiidae) With A New Species From Off Nw Australia
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  • August 2010

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Jorgen G. Nielsen