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Cubiceps capensis
Description
Cubiceps capensis (Smith, 1845).
Cape Cigarfish or Cape Fathead. To 100 cm (39.3 in) TL (Agafonova 1994). Circumglobal (Haedrich in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016); one specimen taken 145 km (90 mi) west-southwest of Morro Bay, central California (35°08’N, 122°24’W) (McCosker et al. 2004). Epipelagic and mesopelagic (Mundy 2005); depth: to more than 800 m (2,624 ft) (Roberts et al. 2015).
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 214, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nomeidae
- Genus
- Cubiceps
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith
- Species
- capensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cubiceps capensis (Smith, 1845) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Agafonova, T. B. (1994) Systematics and distribution of Cubiceps (Nomeidae) of the world ocean. Journal of Ichthyology, 34, 116 - 143.
- 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.
- McCosker, J. E., Anderson, S., Richards, J. & Love, M. (2004) First records of the Cape cigarfish, Cubiceps capensis (Family Nomeidae), from California waters. California Fish and Game, 90, 157 - 159.
- Mundy, B. C. (2005) Checklist of the Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.
- Roberts, C. D., Stewart, A. L. & Struthers, C. D. (Eds.). (2015) The Fishes of New Zealand. Te Papa Press, Wellington.