Title
First record of the intermediate scabbardfish Aphanopus intermedius (Scombriformes: Trichiuridae) in the western South Atlantic Ocean
Date Issued
01 November 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad Federal de Pernambuco
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
This study reports on the first record of the intermediate scabbardfish Aphanopus intermedius in the western South Atlantic Ocean, based on a single specimen 725 mm standard length collected between 0 and 610 m depth around Rocas Atoll off north-eastern Brazil. Measurements and counts are provided and compared with those available in the literature.
Start page
992
End page
995
Volume
93
Issue
5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología
Oceanografía, Hidrología, Recursos hídricos
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85055864143
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Fish Biology
ISSN of the container
00221112
Source funding
European Commission
Sponsor(s)
We acknowledge the French oceanographic fleet for funding the at-sea survey ABRACOS (https://doi.org/10.17600/15005600/ http://dx.doi.org/10.17600/17004100) and the officers and crew of the R.V. Antea for their contribution to the success of the operations. Thanks also to Alexei Orlov (VNIRO) for providing Russian references. The present study could not have been completed without the work of all team members from BIOIMPACT (UFRPE) and LIZ (NUPEM/UFRJ) laboratories. We thank CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development), for providing student scholarship funding to L.N.E. and A.S.L. and research grants to F.L.F. This work is a contribution to the LMI TAPIOCA, CAPES/COFECUB program (88881.142689/2017-01), and PADDLE project (funding by the European Union's Horizon 2020, grant agreement 73427).
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