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Bothrocara molle Bean 1890

Description

Bothrocara molle Bean, 1890.

Soft Eelpout. To 58.7 cm (23.2 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).Southern Kamchatka Peninsula (Anderson et al. 2009), to Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to northern Baja California (30°47’N, 116°52’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); Gulf of California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); Central America (Robertson et al. 2017); Chile (Mecklenburg et al. 2002; confirmed by Eric Anderson); South Atlantic (Anderson et al. 2009). Benthic; depths: 60–2,688 m (197–8,819 ft) (min.: Robertson et al. 2017; max.: Pearcy et al. 1982).

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

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References

  • Anderson, M. E., Stevenson, D. E. & G. Shinohara. (2009) Systematic review of the genus Bothrocara Bean 1890 (Teleostei: Zoarcidae). Ichthyological Research, 56, 172 - 194. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10228 - 008 - 0086 - 6
  • Robertson, D. R., Angulo, A., Baldwin, C. C., Pitassy, D., Driskell, A., Weigt, L. & Navarro, I. J. F. (2017) Deep-water bony fishes collected by the B / O Miguel Oliver on the shelf edge of Pacific Central America: an annotated, illustrated and DNAbarcoded checklist. Zootaxa, 4348, 1 - 125. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4348.1.1
  • Pearcy, W. G., Stein, D. L. & Carney, R. S. (1982) The deep-sea benthic fish fauna of the northeastern Pacific Ocean on Cascadia and Tufts abyssal plains and adjoining continental slopes. Biological Oceanography, 1, 375 - 428.