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Borophryne apogon Regan 1925
Description
Borophryne apogon Regan, 1925.
Netdevil Anglerfish. To 10.1 cm (4 in) SL (Pietsch 2009). Southern Baja California (26°31’N, 114°34’W) (De La Cruz-Agüero and Galván-Magaña 1992) to south of equator (4°25’S, 81°51’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Primarily mesopelagic; depth: As shallow as 54 m (177 ft) (Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006a) and deep tows include 1,900 m (6,233 ft) (De La Cruz-Agüero 1998) and 2,086 m (6,842 ft) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).
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 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Linophrynidae
- Genus
- Borophryne
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lophiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Regan
- Species
- apogon
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Borophryne apogon Regan, 1925 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.
- De La Cruz-Aguero, J. & Galvan-Magana, F. (1992) Peces mesopelagicos de la costa occidental de Baja California sur y del Gulfo de California. Anales del Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, 19, 25 - 31.
- Castellanos-Galindo, G. A., Rubio Rincon, E. A., Beltran-Leon, B., Zapata, L. A. & Baldwin, C. C. (2006 a) Check list of gadiform, ophidiiform and lophiiform fishes from Colombian waters of the tropical eastern Pacific. Biota Colombiana, 7, 191 - 209.
- De La Cruz-Aguero, J. (1998) Borophryne apogon (Ceratioidei: Linophrynidae) in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 46, 848.