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Regalecus russelii

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Description

Regalecus russelii (Cuvier, 1816).

Oarfish. To 7–8 m (23–26 ft) (Roberts 2012). Western Pacific Ocean off Japan (Hiyashi in Nakabo 2002); Surf (34°41’N, 120°36’W), California (Richard Feeney, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Panama (Roberts 2012). Primarily epipelagic and mesopelagic (Roberts 2012). We follow Roberts (2012) and separate this species from R. glesne Ascanius, 1772.Also spelled Regalecus russellii by some authorities (Fricke et al. 2020).

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 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFDBFFFF98EAFAE5FB0F35C4

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/03BE87D6FFDBFFFF98EAFAE5FB0F35C4 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191881986 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FFDBFFFF98EAFAE5FB0F35C4.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Regalecidae
Genus
Regalecus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lampriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Cuvier
Species
russelii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Regalecus russelii (Cuvier, 1816) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Roberts, T. R. (2012) Systematics, biology and distribution of the species of the oceanic oarfish genus Regalecus (Teloestei, Lampridiformes, Regalecidae). Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 202.
  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).