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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Deep-sea manefishes (Perciformes: Caristiidae) from oceanic islands and seamounts off northeastern Brazil, with comments on the caristiids previously reported in Brazilian waters

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Pages 297-304 | Received 20 Oct 2018, Accepted 02 Jun 2019, Published online: 12 Jul 2019
 

ABSTRACT

The manefishes of the family Caristiidae are rare, poorly known deep-sea species with broad geographical distribution. This study provides new information on the diversity and distribution of this family around the oceanic islands and seamounts off northeastern Brazil, reporting the first records of Paracaristius nudarcus, Platyberyx andriashevi, Platyberyx paucus and Platyberyx pietschi in Brazilian waters. Measurements and counts for all specimens examined are provided and compared with those available in the literature. In addition, the identity of caristiids previously reported from Brazil is discussed.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the French oceanographic fleet for funding the at-sea survey ABRACOS and the officers and crew of the RV Antea for their contribution to the success of the operations. Thanks to Dr. Paulo Eurico Travassos for the hard work in samples collection. The present study could not have been done without the work of the team members from BIOIMPACT (UFRPE) and LIZ (NUPEM/UFRJ) labs. Thanks also to Christopher Kenaley and an anonymous referee, for critically reading the manuscript.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

The CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) provided student scholarship to Leandro N. Eduardo and Alex S. Lira, and research grant to Flávia Lucena-Frédou. Leandro N. Eduardo is also supported by FUNBIO and HUMANIZE under the grant ‘Programa Bolsas Funbio - Conservando o Futuro 2018’ (011/2019). This study is a contribution to the LMI TAPIOCA and to the PADDLE project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement 73427). The NPM Fish Collection has been supported by the project MULTIPESCA (FUNBIO) under the grant ‘Pesquisa Marinha e Pesqueira’, contract 104/2016’.

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