Lepidopus fitchi Rosenblatt & Wilson 1987
Description
Lepidopus fitchi Rosenblatt & Wilson, 1987.
Black Scabbardfish or Pacific Scabbardfish. To 210 cm (82.7 in) SL (Nakamura in Fischer et al. 1995). Off Newport, Oregon (Jonathan Cusick, pers. comm. to M.L.) to southern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Nakamura in Fischer et al. 1995). No collections appear to have been made between 20°N and 5° N and Rosenblatt and Wilson (1987) speculate that this is an example of antitropical distribution. Benthopelagic; depth: adults 150–500 m (492–1,640 ft) (min.: Rosenblatt and Wilson 1987; max.: Fitch and Lavenberg 1968), and perhaps to 1,080 m (3,542 ft) (Bradburn et al. 2011). The latter record is from a capture made by a bottom trawl and may represent a catch made in midwaters as the net was retrieved.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Lepidopus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Rosenblatt & Wilson
- Species
- fitchi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lepidopus fitchi Rosenblatt, 1987 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Rosenblatt, R. H. & Wilson Jr, R. R. (1987) Cutlassfishes of the genus Lepidopus (Trichiurudae), with two new eastern Pacific species. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 33, 342 - 351.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
- Fadeev, N. S. (1987) North Pacific Flatfishes (Distribution and Biology). Agropromizdat, Moscow. [Cited in Lindberg and Fedorov 1993.]
- Fitch, J. E. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1968) Deep-Water Fishes of California. California Natural History Guides, No. 25, University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Bradburn, M. J., Keller, A. A. & Horness, B. H. (2011) The 2003 to 2008 U. S. West Coast bottom trawl surveys of groundfish resources off Washington, Oregon, and California: estimates of distribution, abundance, length, and age composition. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS-NWFSC- 114.