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Pachystomias microdon
Description
Pachystomias microdon (Günther, 1878).
Large-eye Dragonfish. To more than 22 cm (8.7 in) SL. Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to northern Japan (Balanov et al. 2009), and Russian north-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); southern Bering Sea, Alaska, Gulf of Alaska and Washington (Stevenson et al. 2009); also eastern Pacific in North Central Gyre at latitude of central Baja California (27°27’N, 155°27’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: 240–4,463 m (787–14,642 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Mecklenburg 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 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Stomiidae
- Genus
- Pachystomias
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Stomiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- microdon
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pachystomias microdon (Gunther, 1878) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Balanov, A. A., Moku, M., Kawaguchi, K. & Shinohara, G. (2009) Fishes collected by commercial size midwater trawls from the Pacific coast off northern Japan. In: Fujita, T. (Ed.), Deepsea Fauna and Pollutants of Pacific Coast of Northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monograph No. 39, pp. 655 - 681.
- 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
- Stevenson, D. E. & Sheiko, B. A. (2009) Clarification of the Lycodes diapterus species complex (Perciformes: oarcidae), with comments on the subgenus Furcimanus. Copeia, 2009, 125 - 137. https: // doi. org / 10.1643 / ci- 08 - 069