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Thymichthys verrucosus (McCulloch &. Waite, 1918)
WARTY HANDFISH
Warty Anglerfish; Brachionichthys verrucosus McCullock and Waite, 1918; Sympterichthys verrucosus McCulloch and Waite, 1918

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Thymichthys verrucosus, Warty handfish
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Thymichthys verrucosus ( McCulloch & Waite , 1918 )

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Lophiiformes (Anglerfishes) > Brachionichthyidae (Handfishes)
Etymology: Thymichthys: Greek thymos (warty excrescence) and Greek ichthys (fish) in allusion to the warty protuberances on the skin of these handfishes ;   verrucosus: Name presumably based on the Latin 'verrucosus' meaning full of warts, referring to the obvious warty nature of its skin (Ref. 82446 ) .
More on authors: McCulloch & Waite .

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; demersal. Temperate

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Eastern Indian Ocean: known only from South Australia.

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Maturity: L m   ?   range ? - ? cm
Max length : 9.3 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 82446 )

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

This species is distinguished by the following set of characters: esca is variable in size, length 23-57% (mean 37%) of illicium length (including esca); short to moderately elongate illicium, not thick and fleshy, without dermal spinules, length 15-27% SL, 1.9-3.4 times in head length, its base adjacent upper jaw (pre-illicial length 1.2-3.2% SL); small eye, its diameter 4.8-7.1 times in head length; body is usually densely covered with prominent, close-set, globular or fleshy warts; skin with small, widely spaced, embedded, spiny scales and variably developed dermal flaps; unicuspid or bicuspid spinules, prostrate, their tips embedded or barely visible); second dorsal-fin rays 14-18 (mainly 16-17), fin base length 60-73 (mean 66)% SL; length of second dorsal-fin spine 1.1-1.6 times length of longest ray of second dorsal fin; anal-fin rays 6-9; pectoral-fin rays usually 8; body brownish with lighter and darker blotches and spots; blackish bar on caudal peduncle and caudal-fin base that extends onto hind parts of dorsal and anal fins (Ref. 82446 ).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

A benthic species (Ref. 75154 ) which occurs in inshore waters (Ref. 7300 , 75154 ) of the continental shelf (Ref. 75154 ).

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Last, P. and D.C. Gledhill , 2009. A revision of the Australian handfishes (Lophiiformes: Brachionichthyidae), with descriptions of three new genera and nine new species. Zootaxa 2252:1-77. (Ref. 82446 )

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435 )

  Data deficient (DD)  ; Date assessed: 01 May 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361 )

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804 ):  PD 50 = 1.0001   [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 ). Trophic level (Ref. 69278 ):  3.7   ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153 ):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

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