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Malacosteus niger Ayres 1848
Description
Malacosteus niger Ayres, 1848.
Spotlight Loosejaw or Shortnose Loosejaw. To 24 cm (9.4 in) SL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984); western Bering Sea northeast of Commander Islands (Balanov and Fedorov 1996); British Columbia (Gillespie 1993) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: surface to 3,886 m (12,824 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Machida in Okamura and Kitajima 1984).
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 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Stomiidae
- Genus
- Malacosteus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Stomiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ayres
- Species
- niger
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Malacosteus niger Ayres, 1848 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Balanov, A. A. & Fedorov, V. V. (1996) About some deep-sea fishes new to the Bering Sea fauna. Journal of Ichthyology, 36, 313 - 316.
- Gillespie, G. E. (1993) An updated list of the fishes of British Columbia, and those of interest in adjacent waters, with numeric code designations. Canadian Technical Report Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 1918.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Okamura, O. & Kitajima, T. (Eds.). (1984) Fishes of the Okinawa Trough and the Adjacent waters. Volume 1. The Intensive Research of Unexploited Fishery Resources on Continental Slopes. Japan Fisheries Conservation Association, Tokyo.