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Rondeletia loricata Abe & Hotta 1963

Description

Rondeletia loricata Abe & Hotta, 1963.

Armored Redmouth Whalefish or Redmouth Whalefish. To 15 cm (6 in) TL (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Uyeno in Masuda et al. 1984) and Sea of Okhotsk (44°20’N, 148°37’E) (Kharin 2006b); Washington (47°12’N) (Lauth 2001) to Chile (27°04’S, 71°45’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and Islas Galápagos (1°46’S, 89°56’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Mesopelagic (Paxton in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016); depth: 100–3,500 m (328–11,480 ft) (min.: Clarke and Wagner 1976; max.: Kamikawa 2017); juveniles in shallower part of depth range (Kotlyar 1996).

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 100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

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  • Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Kharin, V. E. (2006 b) Rondeletiidae - a new family of fish of the Russian fauna. Journal of Ichthyology, 46, 545 - 546. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 003294520607006 x
  • Lauth, R. R. (2001) The 2000 Pacific Coast West Coast upper continental slope trawl survey of groundfish resources off Washington, Oregon, and California: estimates of distribution, abundance, and length composition. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS-AFSC- 120.
  • Carpenter, K. E. & De Angelis, N. (Eds.). (2016) The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Volume 2: Bivalves, Gastropods, Hagfishes, Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras, Volume 3: Bony Fishes Part 1 (Elopiformes to Scorpaeniformes). Volume 4: Bony Fishes Part 2 (Perciformes to Tetradontiformes) and Sea turtles. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes, Rome, FAO.
  • Clarke, T. A. & Wagner, P. J. (1976) Vertical distribution and other aspects of the ecology of certain mesopelagic fishes taken near Hawaii. Fishery Bulletin, 74, 635 - 645.
  • Kamikawa, D. J. (2017) Survey fishes: an illustrated list of the fishes captured during the Northwest Fisheries Science Center's Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring Division's West Coast Surveys. NOAA Technical Memoradum, NMFS-NWFSC- 138.
  • Kotlyar, A. N. (1996) The osteology, intraspecific structure, and distribution of Rondeletia loricata (Rondeletiidae). Journal of Ichthyology, 36, 154 - 168.