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Desmodema lorum Rosenblatt & Butler 1977

Description

Desmodema lorum Rosenblatt & Butler, 1977.

Whiptail Ribbonfish. To 110 cm (43.3 in) SL (Rosenblatt and Butler 1977) or 114 cm (44.9 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Temperate waters of North Pacific Ocean; Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984); southern Kuril Islands (Parin et al. 1995); southern Oregon (44°26’N, 155°05’W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) to Peru (Nakaya et al. 2009), including Gulf of California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Epipelagic (Charter and Moser in Moser 1996) to mesopelagic (Rosenblatt and Butler 1977); depth: adults from a minimum of at least 30 to at least 1,162 m (98–3,811) (min.: Martin 2015; max: NWFSC-FRAM).

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

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References

  • Rosenblatt, R. H. & Butler, J. L. (1977) The ribbonfish genus Desmodema, with the description of a new species (Pisces, Trachipteridae). Fishery Bulletin, 75, 843 - 855.
  • Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
  • Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Parin, N. V., Fedorov, V. V., Borodulina, O. D. & Bekker, V. E. (1995) New records of mesopelagic and epipelagic fishes in Pacific waters off the southern Kuril Islands. Journal of Ichthyology, 35, 193 - 204.
  • Nakaya, K., Yabe, M., Imamura, H., Romero Camarena, M. & Yoshida, M. (Eds.). (2009) Deep-sea Fishes of Peru. Japan Deep Sea Trawlers Assciated and Instituto del Mar del Peru.
  • Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
  • Martin, J. M. (2015) Phylogeny, Ontogeny and Distribution of the Ribbonfishes (Lampridiformes: Trachipteridae). PhD Thesis, The College of William and Mary.