Notes on the Nomeid Fish Cubiceps squamiceps (Lloyd) from the Sea near Kagoshima, Japan

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  • Matsui Seiichi
    Fisheries Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University

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  • 鹿児島近海のボウズコンニャク,Cubiceps squamiceps (Lloyd)について
  • カゴシマ キンカイ ノ ボウズ コンニャク Cubiceps squamice

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Cubiceps squamiceps (Lloyd) has been recorded only from Kochi, Oase, Manazuru and Yanai in the adjacent waters of Japan. I collected samples of Cubiceps at Furue fish market, Kagoshima. They were taken by japanese danish seine off Furue situated in the Kinko Bay and afterwards I could collect the same species from the outside of its bay. Abe (1959) suggested C. squamiceps is the young of C. gracilis, and JIm 46epr 11 Kpacroxona (1975) considered that C. squamiceps is a synonym of C. gracilis. But judging from meristic characters (the numbers of pored scales on lateral line, pectoral, dorsal and anal fin rays, and vertebrae) and proportional measurements (body depth, head length and caudal peduncle depth), Cubiceps squamiceps is regarded distinct species from C. gracilis. I identified above-mentioned samples with Cubiceps squamiceps. It seems C. squamiceps and C. gracilis are partially different in distributions, namely, the former distributes in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the latter in the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. I recognized a remarkable character about the caudal fin, that is, at the parts of bases of lobes, upper and lower lobes of caudal fin overlapped one another, and situated at the sides of right and left, respectively.

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