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Venefica tentaculata Garman 1899

Description

Venefica tentaculata Garman, 1899.

Longnose Witch Eel. To about 90 cm (35.4 in) TL (Asano in Masuda et al. 1984). Japan (Asano in Masuda et al. 1984) and southern Sea of Okhotsk (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); Haida Gwaii (54°04’N, 134°09’W), British Columbia (Hanke et al. 2014) to Chile (Charter in Moser 1996). Depth: 183–2,083 m (600–6,832 ft) (min.: Robertson et al. 2017; max.: Hanke et al. 2014).

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

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References

  • Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • 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
  • Hanke, G. F., Gillespie, G., Fong, K., Boutillier, J., Peden, A. E. & J. M. Bedard, J. M. (2014) New records of spiny eels (Albuliformes), true eels (Anguilliformes), and bobtail eels (Saccopharyngiformes) in British Columbia, Canada. Northwestern Naturalist, 95, 63 - 76. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / nwn 14 - 01.1
  • Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
  • 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