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On a large collection of material, a revision of mesopelagic fish of the genus Poromitra (family Melamphaidae) belonging to the group of species P. cristiceps was performed. The most typical characteristic of this group is the structure of the praeoperculum, in which bony crests of the anterior margin are at an acute angle to each other and in the posterior angular part there is usually an unspined notch. In the paper, the validity of four species of this group that were previously considered synonyms of the cosmopolitan species P. crassiceps is restored. P. cristiceps inhabits the northern part of the Pacific Ocean (to the north of 25–30° N), P. nigrofulva and P. frontosa inhabit tropical waters of the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean, and P. nigriceps inhabits the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, from Greenland to the Azorres.
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Original Russian Text © A.N. Kotlyar, 2009, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2009, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 437–450.
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Kotlyar, A.N. Revision of the genus Poromitra (Melamphaidae): Part 3. Species of group P. cristiceps: P. cristiceps P. nigrofulva, P. frontosa, P. nigriceps . J. Ichthyol. 49, 421–434 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945209060010
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