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Taractes asper Lowe 1843
Description
Taractes asper Lowe, 1843.
Flathead Pomfret or Rough Pomfret. To more than 50 cm (19.7 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984) to Gulf of Alaska off Kodiak Island (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to southern California (31°20’N, 121°10’W) (Parin and Scherbachev 1998) to Chile (Pequeño 1997). Oceanic, primarily pelagic (Mead 1972); depth: surface to about 1,000 m (3,280 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max. Roberts et al. 2015).
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 158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Taractes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Lowe
- Species
- asper
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Taractes asper Lowe, 1843 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.
- Parin, N. V. & Scherbachev, Yu. N. (1998) Taractes asper (Bramidae) in the waters of California. Journal of Ichthyology, 38, 338 - 339.
- Pequeno R., G. (1997) Peces de Chile. Lista sistematica revisada y comentada: addendum. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 32, 77 - 94.
- Mead, G. W. (1972) Bramidae. Dana Report, No. 81.
- Roberts, C. D., Stewart, A. L. & Struthers, C. D. (Eds.). (2015) The Fishes of New Zealand. Te Papa Press, Wellington.