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Opostomias mitsuii Imai 1941
Description
Opostomias mitsuii Imai, 1941.
Pitgum Dragonfish. To 40 cm (15.7 in) SL (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002). Western Pacific Ocean off Japan and southern Kuril Islands (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); British Columbia, 48°41’N, 126°29’W (Milkova et al. 2016) to off Point Conception, California (Berry and Perkins 1966). Depth: surface to 1,514 m (198–4,966 ft) (min.: Gillespie and Saunders 1994; max.: Shinohara et al. 2009).
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
- Opostomias
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Stomiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Imai
- Species
- mitsuii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Opostomias mitsuii Imai, 1941 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. 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
- Milkova, V., Hanke, G., Gillespie, G., Fong, K., Boutillier, J. & Bedard, J. (2016) Range records for ten species of Stomiiform, Aulopiform, and Myctophiform fishes in British Columbia, Canada. Northwestern Naturalist, 97, 113 - 123. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / nwn 15 - 11.1
- Berry, F. H. & Perkins, H. C. (1966) Survey of pelagic fishes of the California Current area. Fishery Bulletin, 65, 625 - 682.
- Gillespie, G. E. & Saunders, M. W. (1994) First verified record of the shortfin mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus and second records or range extensions for three additional species, from British Columbia waters. Canadian Field-Naturalist, 108, 347 - 350.
- Shinohara, G., Narimatsu, Y., Hattori, T., Ito, M., Takata, Y. & Matsuura, K. (2009) Annotated checklist of deep-sea fishes from the Pacific Coast off Tohoku District, Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs, Number 39, 683 - 735.