Published October 19, 2021 | Version v1
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Temnocora candida

Description

Temnocora candida (Gilbert & Burke, 1912).

Bigeye Snailfish or Crested Snailfish. To 10.6 cm (4.2 in) SL. Western North Pacific Ocean off northern Kuril Islands and south-eastern Kamchatka; south-eastern Bering Sea (56°17’N, 168°45’W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) and Aleutian Islands to north-western Gulf of Alaska at Cook Inlet. Depth: 64–400 m (210–1,312 ft). All except Bering Sea record in Mecklenburg et al. (2002). Previously Careproctus candidus Gilbert & Burke, 1912. The descriptions of two closely related new species are being prepared (Gardner, Orr, and Tornabene).

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

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References

  • Gilbert, C. H. & Burke, C. V. (1912) Fishes from Bering Sea and Kamchatka. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, 30, 31 - 96.