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Melamphaes macrocephalus Parr 1931
Description
Melamphaes macrocephalus Parr, 1931.
To 13.3 cm (5.2 in) SL (Kotlyar 2011). Southern California (33°54’N, 121°42’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Depth: upper range of adults and half-grown fish is about 400–500 m (1,312 –1,640 ft) (Ebeling 1962).
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 98, 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
- Parr
- Species
- macrocephalus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melamphaes macrocephalus Parr, 1931 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Kotlyar, A. N. (2011) Revison of the genus Melamphaes (Melamphaidae). II. Multi-raker species: M. polylepis, M. falsidicus sp. nova, M. pachystomus sp. nova, M. macrocephalus, M. lepiu. Journal of Ichthyology, 51, 569 - 580. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945211050080
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Ebeling, A. W. (1962) Melamphaidae 1. Systematics and zoogeography of the species in the bathypelagic fish genus Melamphaes Gunther. Dana Report, No. 58.