Centroscymnus owstonii Garman, 1906

Centroscymnus owstonii Garman, 1906 View in CoL ( Fig. 4 View Figure 4 )

Material

MNHRUN uncat. (2022.E.4.2), 1 specimen, 850 mm TL, Réunion, off northwest coast, 6.7 km north of Le Port , 20°52’54.552”S 55°18’54.344”E, 1000 m depth, St. 12, 8 Sep. 2022 GoogleMaps ; MNHRUN uncat. (2022.E.4.3), 1 specimen, 348 mm TL, Réunion, off northwest coast, 10.8 km northnortheast of Le Port, 20°51’07.056”S 55°20’34.008”E, 1000 m depth, St. 10, 26 May 2022 GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis

Body stout, not strongly tapering after pectoral fins. Snout moderately long; preoral length about equal to distance from mouth to first gill slit. Upper lip furrows very short. Upper teeth lanceolate; lower teeth blade-like. Dorsal fins each bearing a spine covered by skin, or tip slightly exposed. Dermal denticles on lateral trunk large; adults with mostly smooth, circular, cuspidate and acuspidate crowns. First dorsal fin long, low; fin origin over or behind pectoral-fin bases. Second dorsal fin taller than first. Pectoral fins moderately large; fin apex when laid back reaching to a vertical before base of first dorsal-fin spine. Pelvic-fin rear tips below or slightly before second dorsal-fin insertion. Tooth counts 36-39/32-40; vertebrae 96-114 ( Kemper and Ebert, 2022).

Distribution

Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas (including Caribbean Sea) ( Fig. 2B View Figure 2 ).