Icosteus aenigmaticus Lockington 1880
Description
Icosteus aenigmaticus Lockington, 1880.
Ragfish. To 2.13 m (7 ft) TL (Clemens and Wilby 1946) or more (Hart 1973). Sea of Okhotsk (Sheiko and Fedorov 2000), and Pacific coast of southern Honshu, Japan (Suzuki and Tsukada 1994), to Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Point Loma, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972). Larvae have been taken off northernmost Baja California (Moser et al. 1994). Depth: intertidal to 1,420 m (4,658 ft) (min.: Carlisle et al. 1960; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Ragfish under about 30 cm (12 in) TL in shallow water or offshore near surface; adults near bottom and deep (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Adults occasionally found at the shoreline or in the surf evidently are out of their normal depth range and may be injured or disoriented. Acrotus willoughbyi Bean, 1888, is a junior synonym; complete synonymy given in Mecklenburg (2003).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Icosteidae
- Genus
- Icosteus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lockington
- Species
- aenigmaticus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Icosteus aenigmaticus Lockington, 1880 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Clemens, W. A. & Wilby, G. V. (1946) Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Canada. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 68.
- Hart, J. L. (1973) Pacific Fishes of Canada. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 180.
- Sheiko, B. A. & Fedorov, V. V. (2000) Chapter 1. Class Cephalaspidomorphi - Lampreys. Class Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes. Class Holocephali - Chimaeras. Class Osteichthyes - Bony fishes. In: Catalog of Vertebrates of Kamchatka and Adjacent Waters. Kamchatsky Pechatny Dvor, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, pp. 7 - 69 [In Russian.]
- Suzuki, K. & Tsukada, O. (1994) Adult form of the ragfish, Icosteus aenigmaticus, collected from Mie Prefecture, Japan. Annual Report of the Toba Aquarium, 5, 45 - 48.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Moser, H. G., Charter, R. L., Smith, P. E., Ambrose, D. A., Charter, S. R., Meyer, C. A., Sandknop, E. M. & Watson, W. W. (1994) Distribution atlas of the fish larvae in the California Current region: taxa with less than 1000 total larva 1951 through 1984. CalCOFI Atlas, No. 32.
- Carlisle, J. G. Jr., Schott, J. W. & Abramson, N. J. (1960) The barred surfperch (Amphistichus argenteus Agassiz) in southern California. California Department of Fish and Game, Fish Bulletin, 109.
- Mecklenburg, C. W. (2003) Family Anoplopomatidae Jordan & Gilbert 1883 - sablefishes. California Academy of Sciences, Annotated Checklists of Fishes, No. 2.