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Materials for the revision of the family Caristiidae (Perciformes): 1. Description of Paracaristius heemstrai gen. et sp. nov.

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All representatives of the oceanic mesobenthopelagic family Caristiidae are rare. This family comprises of two genera and six species, but the status of these taxa remains indistinct. On the basis of examinations of collections from both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, and from published data a new genus Paracaristius is established. It differs by a wide suborbital space, the upper jaw is fully covered with suborbitalia, and there is a weak dentition of the roof of the mouth cavity. Within this genus two species are attributed, P. maderensis (Maul, 1949), initially attributed to the genus Caristius (Gill et Smith, 1905), and P. heemstrai sp. nova.

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  1. Atlantic Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, ul. Dmitriya Donskogo 5, Kaliningrad, 236000, Russia

    I. A. Trunov & E. I. Kukuev

  2. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences (IORAS), Nakhimovskii prospect 36, Moscow, 117218, Russia

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Original Russian Text © I.A. Trunov, E.I. Kukuev, N.V. Parin, 2006, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2006, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 465–470.

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Trunov, I.A., Kukuev, E.I. & Parin, N.V. Materials for the revision of the family Caristiidae (Perciformes): 1. Description of Paracaristius heemstrai gen. et sp. nov.. J. Ichthyol. 46, 441–446 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003294520606004X

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