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Erilepis zonifer
Description
Erilepis zonifer (Lockington, 1880).
Priestfish or Skilfish. To 188 cm (74 in) TL (Zolotov et al. 2014). Sagami Bay, Pacific coast of central Honshu, Japan (Mecklenburg 2003), to south of Commander–Aleutian chain, and southern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Monterey Bay, central California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Depth: juveniles and young adults to about 110 cm (43 in) TL collected near surface, sometimes close to shore (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); adults close to bottom; depth: 200–1,047 m (656–3,438 ft), usually far from shore (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Zolotov et al. 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 114, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Anoplopomatidae
- Genus
- Erilepis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lockington
- Species
- zonifer
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Erilepis zonifer (Lockington, 1880) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Zolotov, O. G., Spirin, I. Yu. & Zudina, S. M. (2014) New data on the range, biology, and abundance of skilfish Erilepis zonifer (Anoplopomatidae). Journal of Ichthyology, 54, 251 - 265. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945214020131
- Mecklenburg, C. W. (2003) Family Anoplopomatidae Jordan & Gilbert 1883 - sablefishes. California Academy of Sciences, Annotated Checklists of Fishes, No. 2.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.