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Sigmops gracilis
Description
Sigmops gracilis (Günther, 1878).
Slender Fangjaw. To 14.6 cm (6 in) SL (Sinclair and Stabeno 2002).; Central and northern Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); eastern Bering Sea (57°45’N, 173°56’W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) and eastern North Pacific Ocean as far south as northern California (40°54’N, 124°29’W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington); confirmed by Katherine Maslenikov). Primarily mesopelagic; depth: near surface to 4,389 m (14,399 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
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 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Gonostomatidae
- Genus
- Sigmops
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Stomiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- gracilis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sigmops gracilis (Gunther, 1878) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Sinclair, E. H. & Stabeno, P. J. (2002) Mesopelagic nekton and associated physics of the southeastern Bering Sea. Deep-Sea Research, 49, 6127 - 6145. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / s 0967 - 0645 (02) 00337 - 5
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Maslenikov, K. P., Orr, J. W. & Stevenson, D. W. (2013) Range extensions and significant distributional records for eighty-two species of fishes in Alaskan marine waters. Northwestern Naturalist, 94, 1 - 21. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / 12 - 23.1