Barathronus linsi

Barathronus linsi Nielsen, Mincarone & Di Dario, 2015

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Ophidiiformes (Cusk eels) > Bythitidae (Livebearing brotulas)
Etymology: Barathronus: Greek, barathron = abyss + ending -ites, that lives there; the Barathron was a deep pit in Athens where criminals were thrown; 1849 +Greek, onos = hake; linsi: Named for Prof. Jorge Eduardo Lins de Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN); noun in genitive case.
Eponymy: Dr Jorge Eduardo Lins de Oliveira is an oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 1964 - 2045 m (Ref. 103259). Deep-water

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Southwest Atlantic: Brazil.

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Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 10.1 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 103259)

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 78; Anal soft rays: 69; Vertebrae: 78. This species is distinguished from the other four Barathronus species with a transparent peritoneum by the following set of characters: D 78, A 69, pectoral-fin rays 21; vertebrae, precaudal 33, total 78; vomer with eight fangs; anterior gill arch with 25 long rakers; predorsal length 42% SL; absence of pair of bulbs at base of penis; with a ventral flexure of anterior vertebrae; fresh or newly caught specimen overall yellowish to white reddish and lack of black pigment both in skin and peritoneum; otolith oval, 1.7 times as long as thick and with small centrally placed undivided sulcus (Ref. 121928).
Cross section: compressed.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Nielsen, J.G., 2019. Revision of the circumglobal genus Barathronus (Ophidiiformes, Bythitidae) with a new species from the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa 4679(2):231-256. (Ref. 121928)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)

  Data deficient (DD) ; Date assessed: 09 October 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Fisheries: of no interest
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