Largest preserved specimen 46 mm, dark brown.
Holotype, a larva, 13.5 mm, caught in pelagic net in about
100 m at 24°33'S, 38°26'E; another larva, 10 mm, at 21 °13'S,
42°26'E. Also reported from Australia and California.
125.3 Parataeniophorus gulosus
Bertelsen & Marshall, 1956
Parataeniophorusgulosus Bertelsen & Marshall, 1956: 8, Figs. 5,6& 10
(Equatorial western Indian Ocean) .
125.2 Parataeniophorus brevis: 3 cm SL. caudal streamer incomplete.
125.3 Parataeniophorus gulosus: 3.5 cm SL, caudal streamer lost.
125: MIRAPINNIDAE (MIRAPINNIDS)
D 28-33 ; A 23-29; P 19-20; V 9-10; GR 3+8. Vertebrae 49. Depth 7
(with filled stomach 4.5); head 5.2-6.5 in SL. Stomach extremely distensible (food: copepods). Caudal streamer broken in all specimens except
youngest larvae; according to remains it is of similar size as in
Eutaeniophorus.
Largest preserved specimen, the holotype of35 mm, pale
yellow to light brown, caught in closing net between 700 and
1 400 m; all smaller specimens in 0 - 200 m. Recorded from
North Atlantic between 20° and 42°N and western Indian
Ocean between equator and 21°30'S .
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