On a New Pearl-fish, Carapus owasianus with Notes on the Genus Jordanicus GILBERT

Abstract

The new species here described under the name of Carapus owasianus is based on a specimen (MATSUBARA'S Fish Coll. No.18871) obtained by a deep-sea trawler on November 17, 1952 from off Owasi, Mie Prefecture, at a depth of about 100 hiro (about 151.5 meters). The present study is a part of the results of our investigations on the deep-water fishes of Japan and its adjacent regions. The expenses for the studies of the present series were defrayed from 1943 to 1945 from a research fund contributed by Viscount Keizo SHIBUSAWA and since 1948 from the grant-in-aid by the Ministry of Education.