Descriptions of abyssal benthic fishes from the Gulf of Mexico

Abstract

The fishes reported here were all caught in a single bottom haul made by the personnel of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service research vessel Oregon in the Gulf of Mexico at Station 1303, 28° 47' N., 87° 50' W., May 26, 1955, in 1150-1200 fathoms (2104-2194 meters). Some of the specimens have been reported but not described (Grey, 1956). The collection consists of 72 specimens belonging to 7 fam-ilies, 14 genera, and 17 species. Eleven of the species, including two new forms, have not been known previously from the Gulf of Mexico and of these, seven were also unknown from the western Atlantic. Two of the genera are recorded from the western Atlantic for the first time, Grimatroctes Parr and Narcetes Alcock.