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Asquamiceps caeruleus Markle 1980
Description
Asquamiceps caeruleus Markle, 1980.
To 33.7 cm (13.3 in) SL (Markle 1980). Circumglobal (Markle 1980); Gulf of Alaska (57°50’N, 148°24’W) (Stevenson et al. 2009); off Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Mesopelagic; depth: to perhaps 2,740 m (8,987 ft) (Markle 1980). Perhaps a synonym of Asquamiceps pacificus Parr, 1954; provisionally as A. caeruleus (Stevenson et al. 2009).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Alepocephalidae
- Genus
- Asquamiceps
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Osmeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Markle
- Species
- caeruleus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Asquamiceps caeruleus Markle, 1980 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Markle, D. F. (1980) A new species and a review of the deep-sea fish genus Asquamiceps (Salmoniformes: Alepocephalidae). Bulletin of Marine Science, 30, 45 - 53.
- Stevenson, D. E. & Sheiko, B. A. (2009) Clarification of the Lycodes diapterus species complex (Perciformes: oarcidae), with comments on the subgenus Furcimanus. Copeia, 2009, 125 - 137. https: // doi. org / 10.1643 / ci- 08 - 069
- Parr, A. E. (1954) Review of the deep-sea fishes of the genus Asquamiceps Zugmayer, with descriptions of two new species. American Museum Novitates, No. 1655.