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Gigantactis gargantua Bertelsen, Pietsch, & Lavenberg 1981
Description
Gigantactis gargantua Bertelsen, Pietsch, & Lavenberg, 1981.
To 40.8 cm (16.1 in) SL (Bertelsen et al. 1981). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to northern Honshu, Japan (Amaoka in Amaoka et al. 1983); Hawai’i; and southern California (Bertelsen et al. 1981), also offshore of Morro Bay, central California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). One probable record off northern Oregon (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Mesopelagic to bathypelagic; depth: taken in open nets fished to maximum depths of 500–1,535 m (1,640 –5,036 ft) (min.: Bertelsen et al. 1981; max.: Amaoka in Amaoka et al. 1983).
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 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Gigantactinidae
- Genus
- Gigantactis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lophiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bertelsen, Pietsch, & Lavenberg
- Species
- gargantua
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gigantactis gargantua Bertelsen, 1981 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Bertelsen, E., Pietsch. T. W. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1981) Ceratioid anglerfishes of the family Gigantactinidae: morphology, systematics and distribution. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science, 332.
- Amaoka, K., Nakaya, K., Araya, H. & Yasui, T. (Eds.). (1983) Fishes from the north-eastern Sea of Japan and the Okhotsk Sea off Hokkaido. Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association, Tokyo.