Les auteurs présetent une liste de cinquante et une espèces de Poissons comprenant 6 requins et 1 raie qui ont été pris entre de 200 et 400 m, sur le fond. La nature accidentée, rocheuse ou corallienne, du fond entraîne une prospection difficile. Elle explique le nombre élevé (15) de nouvelles récoltées à la nasse, à la ligne et au chalut.

VAUBAN 1978-1979

From bottom trawlings at 38 stations in Philippines waters during the MUSORSTOM cruise, this firsf list deals with 106 species of fishes. Among them three are new, Plectranthias foresti, Callanthias crosnieri and Chlorophtalmus brevirostris; many are rare and some are cited for the first time. The bathymetric distributions are revised or specified for most of the species.

MUSORSTOM 1

The anthiine genus Plectranthias Bleeker (1873)(Serranidae: Anthiunae) has been recentlyrevised by J .E. Randall (1980). Later collection in Western Pacific by author and colleagues have provided three new species, thus raising to 33 species the total number of known species in that genus. Plectranthias maculatus, from the Philippines, caught bettween 129 and 177 m depths by trawl-nets, is distinguished from the other Plectranthias species through its high gillrakers count - 30 to 31, it deep body , steep snout profile, and a large dark brown spot on its back, just below three dorsal fins. Plectranthias barroi, from the Chesterfield Islands (Coral sea) in 300 depths, is very distinctive among the other known species of Plectranthias with a peculiar filamentous ventral rays, and elongated rays in anal and caudal fins. Chelidoperca lecromi, also from the Chesterfield Islands, same depths as P. barroi, differs from other Chelidoperca by its yellow colour and belly striped. The interorbital space of that new species is covered with a scaled band, as C. hirundinacea from which it seprates by lower gill rakers counts (14 vs 18), lower number of pectoral rays (15 vs 16) and of scale rows above lateral line (3 vs 4). Its dorsal spines display a slight curvature close ti their tip, while they are all straight in C. hirundinacea

MUSORSTOM 1, MUSORSTOM 2, VAUBAN 1978-1979

The check list of the fish collected during the CORINDON expedition (COR. II : 20 sampling stations in the Makassar Strait; COR. IV: 7 stations in Piru and Ambon Bay in the Moluccas)) is composed out of 110 species. Most of them are coming from depths between 250 m and 600 m; a dozen of species were found at a 1000 m.

CORINDON 2, Restricted

Au total, les deux missions de chalutage MUSORSTOM I et II, pratiquées entre 36 et 1600 mètres environ ont permis de prendre 290 espèces. Une trentaine qui n'avaient pas été auparavant signalées, s'joutent aux inventaires des poissons profonds des Philippines dont les principaux sont ceux de Fowler, publiés en 1934, 1938 et 1943.

MUSORSTOM 1, MUSORSTOM 2

Triacanthodes intermedius, a new triacanthodid fish collected from New Caledonia, is described and figured from two specimens. This species is clearly separated from the other species of the gemts by having the following characters: eye diameter larger than snout length; interorbital space wide and slightly convex; dorsal profile from mouth to origin of spiny dorsal fin convex; gill opening small, ending ventrally halfway down pectoral base; ventral end of pseudobranch reaching to, but not beyond, the lower edge of pectoral base; pelvis narrow.

VAUBAN 1978-1979