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Argyropelecus lychnus Garman 1899
Description
Argyropelecus lychnus Garman, 1899.
Tropical Hatchetfish. To more than 7.6 cm (3 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Eastern Pacific and possibly Indian Ocean; Gulf of Alaska (59.09°N, 147.01°W) (Stevens et al. 2009) to Chile (Baird 1971), including Islas Galápagos (McCosker et al. 1997). Depth: 66–2,124 m (216–6,967 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006b; max. Cruz-Acevedo et al. 2018). Specimens previously reported as A. lychnus from British Columbia are A. sladeni (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
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 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sternoptychidae
- Genus
- Argyropelecus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Stomiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Garman
- Species
- lychnus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Argyropelecus lychnus Garman, 1899 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Baird, R. C. (1971) The systematics, distribution, and zoogeography of the marine hatchetfishes (family Sternoptychidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 142, 1 - 128.
- McCosker, J. E., Merlin, G., Long, D. S., Gilmore, R. G. & Villon, C. (1997) Deep slope fishes collected during the 1995 eruption of Isla Fernandina, Galapagos. Noticias de Galapagos, No. 58, 22 - 26.
- Castellanos-Galindo, G. A., Rubio Rincon, E. A., Beltran-Leon, B. & Baldwin, C. C. (2006 b) Check list of stomiiform, aulopiform and myctophiform fishes from Colombian waters of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Biota Colombia, 7, 245 - 262.
- Cruz-Acevedo, E., Tolimieri, N. & Aguirre-Villasenor, H. (2018) Deep-sea fish assemblages (300 - 2100 m) in the eastern Pacific off northern Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 592, 225 - 242. https: // doi. org / 10.3354 / meps 12502