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Dysalotus oligoscolus Johnson & Cohen 1974

Description

Dysalotus oligoscolus Johnson & Cohen, 1974.

To 33 cm (13 in) SL (Smith in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016). Circumglobal in temperate to tropical waters; western Pacific Ocean north to south-eastern Kyushu, Japan (Ban and Fukui 2011); southern California to Gulf of California (Johnson and Cohen 1974). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: 1,262 –4,835 m (4,140 –15,859 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Melo 2017).

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

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References

  • Johnson, R. K & Cohen, D. M. (1974) Results of the research cruises of FRV " Walther Herwig " to South America. XXX. Revision of the chiasmodontid fish genera Dysalotus and Kali, with descriptions of two new species. Archiv Fischereiwissenschaft, 25, 13 - 46.
  • Carpenter, K. E. & De Angelis, N. (Eds.). (2016) The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Volume 2: Bivalves, Gastropods, Hagfishes, Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras, Volume 3: Bony Fishes Part 1 (Elopiformes to Scorpaeniformes). Volume 4: Bony Fishes Part 2 (Perciformes to Tetradontiformes) and Sea turtles. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes, Rome, FAO.
  • Ban, K. & Fukui, A. (2011) First Japanese records of a deep-sea chiasmodontid fish, Dysalotus oligoscolus. Japan. Journal of Ichthyology, 59, 45 - 48.
  • Melo, M. R. S. (2017) A review of the genus Dysalotus (Percomorphacea: Chiasmodontidae), with the description of Dysalotus pouliulii sp. nov. Journal of Fish Biology, 90, 786 - 802. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 13194