Pteraclis carolinus Valenciennes, 1833

González-Lorenzo, Gustavo, González-Jiménez, José F., Brito, Alberto & González, José A., 2013, The family Bramidae (Perciformes) from the Canary Islands (Northeastern Atlantic Ocean), with three new records, Cybium 37 (4), pp. 295-303 : 297

Pteraclis carolinus Valenciennes, 1833

Material examined. - None.

Remarks. - This species is known to occur offshore in warm mesopelagic waters from surface to about 400 m of depth, with a restricted distribution in both the Western (Sargasso Sea) and Eastern Atlantic Ocean, including off Madeira and off the West African coast between 20°N and 25°N ( Mead, 1972; Haedrich, 1986; Gomes, 1990; Carvalho-Filho et al., 2009; Froese and Pauly, 2013).

The first, and so far unique record, of this species from the Canary Islands was done by Mead (1964), based on two individuals (15.5 and 19.1 mm SL) caught 3.5 to 5 miles off the Western coast of Tenerife in 1961 during the Discovery II cruise, with a mesopelagic trawl from 170 m to surface over depth of 1160-1700 m. After this date, this species was cited from the Northwestern coast of Africa between 21°N and 25°N and also from the Northern nearby waters of Madeira ( Mead, 1972; Haedrich, 1986; Gomes, 1990), but it was not included in the ichthyological checklists for the Canaries made by Brito (1991), Brito et al. (2002) and Brito and Sancho (2003).