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Melamphaes suborbitalis
Description
Melamphaes suborbitalis (Gill, 1883).
To 12 cm (4.7) SL (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984). Circumglobal (Kotlyar 1999); western Pacific Ocean north to Sea of Okhotsk (Parin and Kotlyar 1998); as far northward as near the U.S. -Mexican Border (31°15’N, 119°59’W) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to at least southeast of Cabo San Lucas (22°25’N, 108°30’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Depth: 100–3,200 m (328–10,496 ft) (Kotlyar 1999).
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
- Gill
- Species
- suborbitalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melamphaes suborbitalis (Gill, 1883) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Kotlyar, A. N. (1999) Melamphaes suborbitalis (Melamphaidae): osteology, intraspecific structure, distribution, and description of a new species, Melamphaes parini sp. nova. Journal of Ichthyology, 39, 421 - 432.
- Parin, N. V. & Kotlyar, A. N. (1998) Melamphaes suborbitalis and Scopeloberyx robustus (Melamphaeidae) from the Russian part of the Sea of Okhotsk. Journal of Ichthyology, 38, 481 - 482.