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Notacanthus chemnitzii Bloch 1788
Description
Notacanthus chemnitzii Bloch, 1788.
Snubnosed Spiny Eel. To 135 cm (54 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2018). Probably circumglobal; Greenland (Okamura and Takahashi in Okamura et al. 1995); western Pacific Ocean off Japan (Yabe in Amaoka et al. 1983); Sea of Okhotsk (Orlov 1998); northern Bering Sea (59°22’N, 178°28’W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Benthopelagic; depth: 126–3,285 m (413–10,775 ft) (min.: Orlov and Tokranov 2019; max.: Yabe in Amaoka et al. 1983); usually taken at the greater depths (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Either a single species with some intraspecific variation (Mecklenburg et al. 2018) or a species complex (Robertson et al. 2017).
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 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Notacanthidae
- Genus
- Notacanthus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Notacanthiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bloch
- Species
- chemnitzii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Notacanthus chemnitzii Bloch, 1788 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Lynghammar, A., Johannesen, E., Byrkjedal, I., Christiansen, J. S., Dolgov, A. V., Karamushko, O. V., Mecklenburg, T. A., Moller, P. R., Steinke, D. & Wienerrolther, R. M. (2018) Marine Fishes of the Arctic Region. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyrl.
- Okamura, O., Amaoka, K., Takeda, M., Yano, K., Okuda, K. & Chikuni, S. (1995) Fishes Collected by the R / V Shinkai Maru Around Greenland. Japan Marine Fishery Resources Research Center.
- 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.
- Orlov, A. M. (1998) Demersal ichthyofauna of Pacific waters around the Kuril Islands and southeastern Kamchatka. Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 24, 144 - 160.
- 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
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Orlov, A. M. & Tokranov, A. M. (2019) Checklist of deep-sea fishes of the Russian northwestern Pacific Ocean found at depths below 1000 m. Progress in Oceanography, 176, https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pocean. 2019.102143
- Robertson, D. R., Angulo, A., Baldwin, C. C., Pitassy, D., Driskell, A., Weigt, L. & Navarro, I. J. F. (2017) Deep-water bony fishes collected by the B / O Miguel Oliver on the shelf edge of Pacific Central America: an annotated, illustrated and DNAbarcoded checklist. Zootaxa, 4348, 1 - 125. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4348.1.1