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Gigantactis microdontis Bertelsen, Pietsch, & Lavenberg 1981
Description
Gigantactis microdontis Bertelsen, Pietsch, & Lavenberg, 1981.
To 31 cm (12.2 in) SL (Pietsch 2009). Western Pacific (Prokofiev and Pietsch 2019); Oregon (43°31’N, 124°54’W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) to southern California (Bertelsen et al. 1981); Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California); Peru (Bertelsen et al. 1981). Mesopelagic to bathypelagic; depth: taken in open nets fished above 1,200 m (3,937 ft) (Bertelsen et al. 1981).
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 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Gigantactinidae
- Genus
- Gigantactis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lophiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bertelsen, Pietsch, & Lavenberg
- Species
- microdontis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gigantactis microdontis Bertelsen, 1981 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Pietsch, T. W. (2009) Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Prokofiev, A. M. & Pietsch, T. W. (2019) First record of the ceratioid anglerfish species Gigantactis microdontis (Teleostei: Lophiiformed: Gigantactinidae) in the western Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa, 4664, 441 - 444. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / Zootaxa,. 4664.3.11
- Bertelsen, E., Pietsch. T. W. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1981) Ceratioid anglerfishes of the family Gigantactinidae: morphology, systematics and distribution. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science, 332.