Revision of the circumglobal deep-sea genus Leucicorus (Teleostei, Ophidiidae) with two new species Author Schwarzhans, Werner W. Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark and Ahrensburger Weg 103, 22359 Hamburg, Germany Author Nielsen, Jørgen G. Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark. jgnielsen @ snm. ku. dk Author Mundy, Bruce C. Ocean Research Explorations, P. O. Box 235926, Honolulu, HI 96823, USA. mundyichthyo @ gmail. com text Zootaxa 2022 2022-02-22 5100 4 541 558 journal article 20509 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.4.5 88055c49-f6af-41f7-9672-96d9572b7639 1175-5326 6224876 8DD15BEE-86E0-4DD8-AC05-6C76A993508C

TABLE 1. Tabulation of meristic, morphometric, squamation and otolith characters.

	Leucicorus lusciosus		Leucicorus gerringerae n. sp.		Leucicorus atlanticus		Leucicorus lentibus n. sp.	Leucicorus sp.
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	Holotype	2 addit. spms.	Holotype	paratype	Holotype	21 addit. spms.	Holotype	2 spms.
SL (mm)	245	225–251+	235	214	154	48–240	170	75–85
				Meristics
		62+–69				58–62
Vertebrae (precaudal/caudal)	68 (14/54)		62 (14/48)	62 (13/49)	61 (14/47)		64 (14/50)	65–66 (14/51–52)
		(13–14/49+–55)				(13–14/45–48)
Dorsal fin rays	110	110–114	97	97	88	82–94	105	91
Caudal fin rays	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Anal fin rays	96	96–99	73	80	73	68–80	87	76
Pectoral fin rays	25	25	24	24	23	22–24	25	not discernable
Branchiostegal rays	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
1st dorsal fin ray above vertebra	6	5–6	6	6	6	5–7	6	8
1st anal fin ray below vertebra	16	15–16	16	17	18	17–22	16	16–18
1st anal fin ray below dorsal fin ray	20	17–21	21	19	18	15–18	17	20
Developed gill rakers on 1st gill arch	9	10	11	9	10	9–12	10	9
Total gill rakers on 1st gill arch	17	18	19	18	21	18–22	18	17–19
Morphometrics in % of SL
Head length	20.5	21.0–21.5	21.5	23.0	22.0	21.0–24.0	21.5	20.7
Diameter of black eye (% of HL)	no data	15.5–18.5	19.5	15.0	10.0	10.0–13.5 (18.5)	13.0	not discernable
Eye lens (% of black eye)	no data	5.0 (**)	no lens	no lens	no data	0.0–10.0 (**)	57.0	not discernable
Depth at anterior anal fin ray	13.0	11.0	12.5	15.0	10.5	8.3–12.5	10.0	8.8
Upper jaw length	10.5	10.5–10.5	10.5	10.5	11.0	10.0–12.0	10.5	10.7
Bony interorbital	5.7	5.7–6.8	8.0	7.9	7.0	6.3–7.6		not discernable
Predorsal	24.0	24.0	25.0	24.5	26.0	23.5–27.5	27.5	26.8
Preanal	39.0	39.0	41.0	41.5	40.5	35.0-43.0	41.0	40.1
Preventral	16.0	15.0	17.0	18.0	16.0	14.0–18.5	17.5	14.4
Distance ventral to anal fin bases	24.5	25.0	26.0	21.0	24.0	21.5–28.5	26.0	25.7