Gyrinomimus alepis Su, Paxton & Ho, 2026
Scaleless flabby whalefish
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Beryciformes (Sawbellies) > Cetomimidae (Flabby whalefishes)
Etymology: Gyrinomimus: Greek, gyrinos = tadpole + Latin, mimus = imitator (Ref. 45335); alepis: Name 'alepis' from the words 'a' and 'lepis', meaning 'without' and 'scales', in reference to the absence of scales on the anal lappets. A noun in apposition.
Etymology: Gyrinomimus: Greek, gyrinos = tadpole + Latin, mimus = imitator (Ref. 45335); alepis: Name 'alepis' from the words 'a' and 'lepis', meaning 'without' and 'scales', in reference to the absence of scales on the anal lappets. A noun in apposition.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Marine; bathypelagic; depth range 0 - 1900 m (Ref. 138879). Tropical
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Southeast Atlantic
Size / Weight / Age
Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Vertebrae: 54. This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: single ridge of skin over the anal fin with incipient anal lappets without scales; filaments on fourth gill arch well developed, its length 82.4% filament on first arch; cavernous tissue present around anus and extending to base of third anal-fin ray; vertebrae 36 + 18 = 54; GRI 2 + 1 + 8; medial GRI 4; medial GRII 1; dorsal-fin rays 15; anal-fin rays 15; lateral-line pores 17; lateral-line scales 16; and copular tooth plate rather broad, greatest width 2.1 in length (Ref. 138879).
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.
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Su, Y., J.R. Paxton and H.-C. Ho, 2026. Four new species of the whalefish genus Gyrinomimus Parr, 1934, with the establishment of three new species groups (Beryciformes, Cetomimidae). ZooKeys 1279: 57-95. (Ref. 138879)
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Not Evaluated
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Harmless
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AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: genus, species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | OneZoom | Open Tree of Life | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | TreeBase | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoobank | Zoological Record
Estimates based on models
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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5020 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
| Bayesian length-weight | a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245). |
| 0 | |
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Resilience (Ref. 120179) |
High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
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Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (10 of 100). 🛈 |