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Zaprora silenus Jordan 1896
Description
Zaprora silenus Jordan, 1896.
Prowfish. To 1 m (3.3 ft) TL or more (Mecklenburg 2003). Hokkaido, Japan and Sea of Okhotsk, Kuril Islands, Commander-Aleutian Islands to Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2016) to eastern Chukchi Sea (west of Kivalina, 67°32’N, 165°54’W) (Mecklenburg et al. 2011) to San Miguel Island, southern California (Allen and Smith 1988). Depth: 0–801 m (2,628 ft) (min.: Federov et al. 2003; max.: Smith et al. 2004); adults near bottom, young fish often taken near surface (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
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 191, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Zaproridae
- Genus
- Zaprora
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan
- Species
- silenus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Zaprora silenus Jordan, 1896 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Jordan, D. S. & Evermann, B. W. (1896 a) A check-list of the fishes and fish-like vertebrates of North and Middle America. Reports of the United States Fish Commission, (for 1895) 21, Appendix 5, 207 - 584.
- Mecklenburg, C. W. (2003) Family Anoplopomatidae Jordan & Gilbert 1883 - sablefishes. California Academy of Sciences, Annotated Checklists of Fishes, No. 2.
- 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., Moller, P. R. & Steinke, D. (2011) Biodiversity of arctic marine fishes: taxonomy and zoogeography. Marine Biodiversity, 41, 109 - 140. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12526 - 010 - 0070 - z
- Allen, M. J. & Smith, G. B. (1988) Atlas and zoogeography of common fishes in the Bering Sea and northeastern Pacific. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 66.
- Federov, V. V., Chereshnev, I. A., Nazarkin, M. V., Shestakov, A. V. & Volubuev, V. V. (2003) Catalog of Marine and Freshwater Fishes of the Northern Part of the Sea of Okhotsk. Vladivostok, Dolnauka [In Russian].
- Smith, K. R., Somerton, D. A., Yang, M. - S. & Nichol, D. G. (2004) Distribution and biology of prowfish (Zaprora silenus) in the northeast Pacific. Fishery Bulletin, 102, 168 - 178.