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Melamphaes laeviceps Ebeling 1962
Description
Melamphaes laeviceps Ebeling, 1962.
To 13.4 cm (5.3 in) SL (Ebeling 1962). Southern California (32°10’N, 120°37’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and off northern Baja California (Berry and Perkins 1966), to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Depth: adults probably below 400–500 m (1,312 –1,640 ft) (Ebeling 1962) to perhaps 2,000 m (6,650 ft) (Kotlyar 2014).
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 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Melamphaidae
- Genus
- Melamphaes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Stephanoberyciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ebeling
- Species
- laeviceps
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melamphaes laeviceps Ebeling, 1962 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Ebeling, A. W. (1962) Melamphaidae 1. Systematics and zoogeography of the species in the bathypelagic fish genus Melamphaes Gunther. Dana Report, No. 58.
- Berry, F. H. & Perkins, H. C. (1966) Survey of pelagic fishes of the California Current area. Fishery Bulletin, 65, 625 - 682.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Kotlyar, A. N. (2014) Revision of the genus Melamphaes (Melamphaidae): 1. Oligo-raker species M. laeviceps, M. spinifer, and M. eulepis. Journal of Ichthyology, 54, 620 - 630. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945214060095