Cubiceps

Abstract: The new genus Kollasmosoma (Braconidae: Neoneurinae; type species: Elasmosoma platamonense Huddleston, 1976, from the Mediterranean area) is described and illustrated. New combinations are: Kollasmosoma cubiceps (Huddleston, 1976), K. marikovskii (Tobias, 1986), and K. platamonense (Huddleston, 1976). A key to the genera of Neoneurinae is added, and the type species of the known genera are illustrated.

Abstract: 273 Catching of unusually large fish from the Nomeidae family with a total length (TL) 1270 mm near (Fig. 1) the coast of Mauritania (19°40′ northern latitude 17°06′ western longitude, fishing ship RTMKSm Maksim Starostin, July 7, 2007) was the reason for the present publication. Unfortunately, one failed to preserve the specimen and to deliver it to the coast, as well as to make a detailed examination of the main diagnostic features on the roof of the oral cavity (teeth structure on the vomer) and tongue. However, the type of scale location on the body and the anterior part of the head and relatively small eye socket allowed us to assume that this specimen is a giant fathead (Cubiceps paradoxus), which is known only in the Pacific Ocean (Butler, 1979; Agafonova, 1988b, 1994). Almost 6 years later, a specimen of the large fish from the Cubiceps genus with a standard length (SL) 450 mm (Fig. 2) was caught and fixed during the trawling and acoustic survey in expedition of the R/V Atlantida in January 2013, also near Mauritania (19°10′ northern latitude 16°45′ western longitude) during trawling over the depths 165–400 m. We determined the caught specimen as C. paradoxus according to a number of features (including the type of teeth structure at the roof of the oral cavity and tongue), which confirmed our assumptions about the species belonging of very large fish from Nomeidae family caught during the trip of RTMKSm Maksim Starostin. The aim of the present report is a description of the C. paradoxus giant fathead individual, which was for the first time registered in Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Mauritania, and comparison with known in this region C. capensis large fathead species. M a t e r i a l. C. paradoxus, one individual, SL 450 mm, exclusive economic zone of Mauritania, 19°10′ north ern latitude 16°45′ western longitude, R/V Atlantida, December 2, 2012, collector S.Yu. Gulyugin. D e s c r i p t i o n. C. paradoxus SL 450 mm, D X 24, A III, 23 V 7, sp.br. 11 + 1 + 18 (29), amount of caudal fin rim rays 9–11 (table). Scale small, easily falling (103 scales go along lateral line of body. Snout top (higher than nostrils) and preorbital space devoid of scales; original “high temples.” Body elongated, its height fits within SL approximately five times, and First Finding of Giant Fathead (Cubiceps paradoxus, Nomeidae) in the Atlantic Ocean (Coast of Mauritania)

Abstract: The four newly recorded stromateiod fishes from waters adjacent to Taiwan are described on the basis of recently collected or discovered specimens, and a key to the four families and 11 species of the Stromateiodei in Taiwan is provided. Among them, vouchers of the Hyperoglyphe japonica (Centrolophidae), Cubiceps pauciradiatus (Nomeidae) and Ariomma brevimanum (Ariommatidae) confirmed the expected distribution in Taiwan, and Cubiceps kotlyari, with an extended distribution from the western tropical Pacific northward to Taiwan. C. pauciradiatus and C. kotlyari were rarely seen in the demersal trawling catches, whereas H. japonica and A. brevimanum were found occasionally at fish markets in Taiwan.