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Regalecus russelii
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).
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Additional details
Identifiers
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).