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Cubiceps paradoxus Butler 1979

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Cubiceps paradoxus Butler, 1979.

Longfin Cigarfish. To 128 cm (50.4 in) TL (Frable et al. 2020). Off Mauritania, eastern Atlantic (Kukuev and Gulyugin 2015); western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); Port Hueneme (Merit McCrea, pers. comm. to M.L.) and Palos Verdes, southern California (Butler 1979). Epipelagic and mesopelagic (Mundy 2005).

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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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF44FF6098EAFD08F9413384

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FF44FF6098EAFD08F9413384 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191884537 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FF44FF6098EAFD08F9413384.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Nomeidae
Genus
Cubiceps
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Butler
Species
paradoxus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cubiceps paradoxus Butler, 1979 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Butler, J. (1979) The nomeid genus Cubiceps (Pisces) with a description of a new species. Bulletin of Marine Science, 29, 226 - 241.
  • Frable, B. W., McCrea, M. H., Love, M. S. & Craig, M. T. (2020) A new maximum size for the family Nomeidae and the third record of a longfin cigarfish, Cubiceps paradoxus (Stromateioidei: Nomeidae) from California, USA. Journal of Fish Biology, 97, 1573 - 1575. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 14516
  • Kukuev, E. I. & Gulyugin, S. Yu. (2015) First finding of giant fathead (Cubiceps paradoxus, Nomeidae) in the Atlantic Ocean (coast of Mauritania). Journal of Ichthyology, 55, 273 - 277. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945215020113
  • Savinykh, V. F. (1998) Nekton composition of near-surface waters of the subarctic front zone in the northwest part of the Pacific Ocean according to the data of drift-net catches. Journal of Ichthyology, 38, 18 - 27.
  • Mundy, B. C. (2005) Checklist of the Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.