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Lycenchelys hippopotamus Schmidt 1950
Description
* Lycenchelys hippopotamus Schmidt, 1950.
Behemoth Eelpout or Hippopotamus Eelpout. To 22.3 cm (8.8 in) TL, but none recorded is fully mature (Anderson 1995). Southern Sea of Okhotsk (Schmidt 1950) to western Bering Sea southwest of Cape Navarin (Fedorov 1976). Benthic; depth: 160–1,800 m (525–5,904 ft) (min.: Orlov and Tokranov 2019; max.: Kawarada et al. 2020).
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 181, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Zoarcidae
- Genus
- Lycenchelys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Schmidt
- Species
- hippopotamus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lycenchelys hippopotamus Schmidt, 1950 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Schmidt, P. J. (1950) Fishes of the Sea of Okhotsk. Akademii Nauk SSSR, Trudy Tikhookeanskogo Komiteta 6. [Translation by Israel Program for Scientific Translation, 1965.]
- Anderson, M. E. (1995) The eelpout genera Lycenchelys Gill and Taranetzella Andriashev (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) in the eastern Pacific, with descriptions of nine new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 49, 55 - 113.
- Fedorov, V. V. (1976) New data on the eel-like likods (Pisces, Zoarcidae) from the northwestern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea]. Izvestiya TINRO, 100, 3 - 18 [In Russian.]
- Orlov, A. M. & Tokranov, A. M. (2019) Checklist of deep-sea fishes of the Russian northwestern Pacific Ocean found at depths below 1000 m. Progress in Oceanography, 176, https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pocean. 2019.102143
- Kawarada, S., Imamura, H., Narimatsu, Y. & Shinohara, G. 2020. Taxonomic revision of the genus Lycenchelys (Osteichthyes: Zoarcidae) in Japanese waters. Zootaxa, 4762, 1 - 66. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4762.1.1