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Ranzania laevis

Description

Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776).

Slender Mola. To 90 cm (35.4 in) TL (Hutchins in Carpenter and Niem 2001). Circumglobal (Hutchins in Carpenter and Niem 2001); western Pacific Ocean north to Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002); Oceano, central California (Snyder 1913) to Chile (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), including southern Gulf of California (Scott in Fischer et al. 1995). Depth: surface to 257 m (843 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 227, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (Eds.). (2001) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 5. Bony Fishes Part 3 (Menidae to Pomacentridae). Volime 6. Bony Fishes Part 4 (Labridae to Latimeriidae), Estuarine Crocodiles, Sea Turtles, Sea Snakes and Marine Mammals. FAO, Rome.
  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Snyder, J. O. (1913) Notes on Ranzania makua Jenkins and other species of fishes of rare occasion on the California coast. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 44, 455 - 460.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Roberts, C. D., Stewart, A. L. & Struthers, C. D. (Eds.). (2015) The Fishes of New Zealand. Te Papa Press, Wellington.