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Melamphaes longivelis Parr 1933

Description

Melamphaes longivelis Parr, 1933.

Longfin Bigscale. To 12.7 cm (5 in) SL (Moore in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016). Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); southern California (Berry and Perkins 1966) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Depth: adults at 500–1,500 m (1,640 –4,920 ft) (min.: Ebeling 1962; max.: Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984); young fish as shallow as 150 m (492 ft) (Ebeling 1962).

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 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

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  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Berry, F. H. & Perkins, H. C. (1966) Survey of pelagic fishes of the California Current area. Fishery Bulletin, 65, 625 - 682.
  • Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
  • Ebeling, A. W. (1962) Melamphaidae 1. Systematics and zoogeography of the species in the bathypelagic fish genus Melamphaes Gunther. Dana Report, No. 58.
  • Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.