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Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco 1833
Description
Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco, 1833.
Oilfish. To 305 cm (10 ft) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002), and southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); well off Bodega Bay (38°15’N, 123°30’W), northern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to southern Baja California and Costa Rica (Robertson and Allen 2015) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Oceanic benthopelagic; depth: 22–1,160 m (72–3,806 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Pakhorukov 1999).
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 210, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Gempylidae
- Genus
- Ruvettus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Cocco
- Species
- pretiosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco, 1833 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Parin, N. V. (2003) An annotated catalogue of fish-like vertebrates and fishes of the seas of Russia and adjacent countries: Part 3. Orders Perciformes (excluding suborders Gobioidei, Zoarcoidei and Stichaeoidei) and Tetraodontiformes. Journal of Ichthyology, 43, S 1 - S 40.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Pakhorukov, N. P. (1999) Underwater observations on deepwater fish of the Atlantic Ocean in the region of the Sierra Leone Rise. Journal of Ichthyology, 39, 626 - 633.