taxonID	type	description	language	source
425387BD1A07FFBAFCE045A5FA7F9F69.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Body stout, heavy; head broad; snout bluntly rounded to rounded-angular in dorso-ventral view; preoral length short, 4.3 - 5.4 % TL. Eyes small; mouth broad, U-shaped, its width more than twice its length. Pectoral fins broadly triangular. Caudal peduncle short and stout. Postventral margin of caudal fin weakly concave to straight and not subdivided; lower caudal-fin lobe poorly developed (Ebert, 2022).	en	Fricke, Ronald, Durville, Patrick, Mulochau, Thierry, Potin, Gaël (2024): Deep-water fish species from Réunion observed during an inventory of the fauna at 1000 m depth, including first and confirmed records. Cybium 48 (3): 219-227, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2024-018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681635
425387BD1A07FFBAFCE045A5FA7F9F69.taxon	distribution	Distribution Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, East and South China seas, Gulf of California / Mexico) (Fig. 2 A).	en	Fricke, Ronald, Durville, Patrick, Mulochau, Thierry, Potin, Gaël (2024): Deep-water fish species from Réunion observed during an inventory of the fauna at 1000 m depth, including first and confirmed records. Cybium 48 (3): 219-227, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2024-018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681635
425387BD1A06FFBBFF4D45A5FDDB9CC9.taxon	materials_examined	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; 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.	en	Fricke, Ronald, Durville, Patrick, Mulochau, Thierry, Potin, Gaël (2024): Deep-water fish species from Réunion observed during an inventory of the fauna at 1000 m depth, including first and confirmed records. Cybium 48 (3): 219-227, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2024-018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681635
425387BD1A06FFBBFF4D45A5FDDB9CC9.taxon	diagnosis	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).	en	Fricke, Ronald, Durville, Patrick, Mulochau, Thierry, Potin, Gaël (2024): Deep-water fish species from Réunion observed during an inventory of the fauna at 1000 m depth, including first and confirmed records. Cybium 48 (3): 219-227, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2024-018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681635
425387BD1A06FFBBFF4D45A5FDDB9CC9.taxon	distribution	Distribution Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas (including Caribbean Sea) (Fig. 2 B).	en	Fricke, Ronald, Durville, Patrick, Mulochau, Thierry, Potin, Gaël (2024): Deep-water fish species from Réunion observed during an inventory of the fauna at 1000 m depth, including first and confirmed records. Cybium 48 (3): 219-227, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2024-018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681635
425387BD1A06FFBCFCEA4746FE5E9B09.taxon	materials_examined	Material MNHRUN uncat. (2022. E. 4.4), 1 male, 630 mm TL, Réunion, off northwest coast, 19.6 km northwest of Cap de La Houssaye, 20 ° 55 ’ 04.080 ” S 55 ° 05 ’ 08.268 ” E, 1000 m depth, St. 8, 9 May 2022; MNHRUN uncat. (2022. E. 4.5), 1 female, 545 mm TL, Réunion, off northwest coast, 18.8 km northwest of Cap de La Houssaye, 20 ° 55 ’ 19.236 ” S 55 ° 05 ’ 28.248 ” E, 1000 m depth, St. 13, 20 Sep. 2022.	en	Fricke, Ronald, Durville, Patrick, Mulochau, Thierry, Potin, Gaël (2024): Deep-water fish species from Réunion observed during an inventory of the fauna at 1000 m depth, including first and confirmed records. Cybium 48 (3): 219-227, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2024-018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681635
425387BD1A06FFBCFCEA4746FE5E9B09.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Body rounded, head and mouth broad. Upper jaw teeth with erect, dagger-like cusp and several smaller lateral cusplets; lower teeth a single band of overlapping blade-like teeth. Dermal denticles erect, thorn-like, scattered over head, flank and belly; base of dorsal fins with a naked area. Pho- tophore pattern on belly obscured, poorly defined. Dorsal fins about equal in size and height; each fin bearing a strong spine, the second following the contour of anterior margin of fin. Pectoral fins lobate; caudal fin well developed, with sub- terminal notch, lower lobe well developed (Last and Stewart, 2015).	en	Fricke, Ronald, Durville, Patrick, Mulochau, Thierry, Potin, Gaël (2024): Deep-water fish species from Réunion observed during an inventory of the fauna at 1000 m depth, including first and confirmed records. Cybium 48 (3): 219-227, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2024-018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681635
425387BD1A06FFBCFCEA4746FE5E9B09.taxon	distribution	Distribution Southern Hemisphere: Southwestern and southeastern Atlantic; southern Indian Ocean; southwestern and southeastern Pacific (Fig. 2 C).	en	Fricke, Ronald, Durville, Patrick, Mulochau, Thierry, Potin, Gaël (2024): Deep-water fish species from Réunion observed during an inventory of the fauna at 1000 m depth, including first and confirmed records. Cybium 48 (3): 219-227, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2024-018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681635
425387BD1A01FFBCFF234665FEC49C89.taxon	description	MNHRUN uncat. (2022. E. 4.6), 1 specimen, 605 mm TL, Réunion, off northwest coast, 18.6 km west-northwest of Cap de La Houssaye, 20 ° 56 ’ 46.212 ” S 55 ° 04 ’ 41.772 ” E, 1000 m depth, St. 14, 28 Sep. 2022.	en	Fricke, Ronald, Durville, Patrick, Mulochau, Thierry, Potin, Gaël (2024): Deep-water fish species from Réunion observed during an inventory of the fauna at 1000 m depth, including first and confirmed records. Cybium 48 (3): 219-227, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2024-018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681635
425387BD1A01FFBCFF234665FEC49C89.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Body either uniformly black, or countershaded. Dorsal and anal fins without black margins posteriorly to the caudal filament. Teeth small. Postorbital pores 3 - 20; preopercular pores 2 - 18. Precaudal vertebrae 5 - 12 (Nielsen and Smith, 1978).	en	Fricke, Ronald, Durville, Patrick, Mulochau, Thierry, Potin, Gaël (2024): Deep-water fish species from Réunion observed during an inventory of the fauna at 1000 m depth, including first and confirmed records. Cybium 48 (3): 219-227, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2024-018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681635
425387BD1A01FFBCFF234665FEC49C89.taxon	distribution	Distribution Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, western Mediterranean Sea, South China Sea, East China Sea, Gulf of California / Mexico) (Fig. 2 D).	en	Fricke, Ronald, Durville, Patrick, Mulochau, Thierry, Potin, Gaël (2024): Deep-water fish species from Réunion observed during an inventory of the fauna at 1000 m depth, including first and confirmed records. Cybium 48 (3): 219-227, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2024-018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681635
425387BD1A00FFBDFF554745FE499F29.taxon	description	MNHRUN uncat. (2022. E. 4.9), 1 specimen, 425 mm TL, Réunion, off northwest coast, 19.3 km northwest of Cap de La Houssaye, 20 ° 55 ’ 04.080 ” S 55 ° 05 ’ 08.268 ” E, 1000 m depth, St. 8, 9 May 2022.	en	Fricke, Ronald, Durville, Patrick, Mulochau, Thierry, Potin, Gaël (2024): Deep-water fish species from Réunion observed during an inventory of the fauna at 1000 m depth, including first and confirmed records. Cybium 48 (3): 219-227, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2024-018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681635
425387BD1A00FFBDFF554745FE499F29.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis D (5 - 6) + (54 - 59); A 49 - 52; P 1 22 - 23; P 2 7; gill rakers 5 + 15; orbit diameter 4.2 - 5.4 in head length; scales absent on branchiostegal membranes; body greyish pink, vertical fins dark (Cohen, 1986).	en	Fricke, Ronald, Durville, Patrick, Mulochau, Thierry, Potin, Gaël (2024): Deep-water fish species from Réunion observed during an inventory of the fauna at 1000 m depth, including first and confirmed records. Cybium 48 (3): 219-227, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2024-018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681635
425387BD1A00FFBDFF554745FE499F29.taxon	distribution	Distribution Southeastern Atlantic, southwestern Indian Ocean: South Africa; Réunion (Fig. 2 F).	en	Fricke, Ronald, Durville, Patrick, Mulochau, Thierry, Potin, Gaël (2024): Deep-water fish species from Réunion observed during an inventory of the fauna at 1000 m depth, including first and confirmed records. Cybium 48 (3): 219-227, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2024-018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681635
