Aspidophoroides monopterygius
Description
Aspidophoroides monopterygius (Bloch, 1786).
Alligatorfish. To 22 cm (8.7 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; Seas of Japan and Okhotsk to Gulf of Anadyr, to Bering Sea, and Aleutian Islands, to Chukchi Sea, and Beaufort Sea eastward (to about 71°20’N, 151°06’W), and to Prince William Sound, Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Benthic; depth: 8–340 m (26–1,115 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2018). A maximum depth of 500 m (1,640 ft) reported in Mecklenburg et al. (2002) cannot be verified and a record of 695 m (2,280 ft) (Coad in Coad and Reist 2018) is without documentation. While we consider Aspidophorides bartoni Gilbert, 1896 to be a junior synonym (Mecklenburg et al. 2018), some authors consider it a valid species (e.g., Tohkairin et al. 2015).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Agonidae
- Genus
- Aspidophoroides
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bloch
- Species
- monopterygius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aspidophoroides monopterygius (Bloch, 1786) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A., Sheiko, B. A. & Steinke, D. (2016) Pacific Arctic Marine Fishes. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Lynghammar, A., Johannesen, E., Byrkjedal, I., Christiansen, J. S., Dolgov, A. V., Karamushko, O. V., Mecklenburg, T. A., Moller, P. R., Steinke, D. & Wienerrolther, R. M. (2018) Marine Fishes of the Arctic Region. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyrl.
- Coad, B. W. & Reist, J. D. (Eds.). (2018) Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
- Gilbert, C. H. (1896) Appendix 6. The ichthyological collections of the steamer Albatross during the years 1890 and 1891. Report of the United States Fish Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1893, 19, 393 - 476.
- Tohkairin, A, Hamatsu, T., Yoshikawa, A., Kai, Y. & Nakabo, T. 2015. An illustrated and annotated checklist of fishes on Kitami- Yamato Bank, southern Sea of Okhotsk. Publication of the Seto Marine Biology Laboratory, 43, 1 - 29. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 193238