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Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
Description
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (Walbaum, 1792).
Greenland Halibut or Pacific Black Halibut. To 130 cm (51.2 in) TL (Fadeev 1987). Nearly circumpolar; North Atlantic, Arctic, and North Pacific Oceans; Seas of Japan and Okhotsk to Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas, and Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to just south of U.S.–Mexico border (Hubbs and Wilimovsky 1964). Not documented from the central Canadian High Arctic or East Siberian Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Benthic but often ascends well into the water column (Love et al. 2011); depth: 10–2,000 m (33–6,562 ft) (min.: Orlov and Tokranov 2019; max.: Allen and Smith 1988).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pleuronectidae
- Genus
- Reinhardtius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pleuronectiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Walbaum
- Species
- hippoglossoides
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (Walbaum, 1792) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Fadeev, N. S. (1987) North Pacific Flatfishes (Distribution and Biology). Agropromizdat, Moscow. [Cited in Lindberg and Fedorov 1993.]
- Wilimovsky, N. J. (1964) Inshore fish fauna of the Aleutian archipelago. Proceedings of the Alaska Science Conference, 14, 172 - 190.
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A., Sheiko, B. A. & Steinke, D. (2016) Pacific Arctic Marine Fishes. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.
- Love, M. S. (2011) Certainly More Than You Want to Know about the Fishes of the Pacific Coast. Really Big Press, Santa Barbara.
- Orlov, A. M. & Tokranov, A. M. (2019) Checklist of deep-sea fishes of the Russian northwestern Pacific Ocean found at depths below 1000 m. Progress in Oceanography, 176, https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pocean. 2019.102143
- Allen, M. J. & Smith, G. B. (1988) Atlas and zoogeography of common fishes in the Bering Sea and northeastern Pacific. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 66.