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Melanonus zugmayeri Norman 1930

Description

Melanonus zugmayeri Norman, 1930.

Arrowtail, Black Pelagic Cod, or Coalfish. To 29.4 cm (11.6 in) TL (Henriques et al. 2001). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Honshu, Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002), and Russian north-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); near Alaska off Dixon Entrance, northern British Columbia (Love et al. 2005), southern British Columbia (Peden 1975), and northern Washington to southern California (NWFSC-FRAM) to northern Chile (21°05’S, 71°07’W) (Meléndez and Sielfeld 1991). Oceanic, mainly mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: 0–3,000 m (9,840 ft) (min: Moore et al. 2003; max.: 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 79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Henriques, M., Murta, A. G. & Cabral, H. N. (2001) Melanous zugmayeri Norman, 1930, captured off Portugal. A review of the current knowledge of this species. Scientia Marina, 65, 43 - 46. https: // doi. org / 10.3989 / scimar. 2001.65 n 143
  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • 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
  • Love, M. S., Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2005) Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Divition, Seattle, OCS Study MMS 2005 - 030 and USGS / NBII 2005 - 001.
  • Peden, A. E. (1975) Rare fishes including first records of thirteen species from British Columbia. Syesis, 7, 47 - 62. [1974 on journal, but not issued until January 1975.]
  • Melendez C. R. & Sielfeld K, W. (1991) Melanonus zugmayeri Norman, 1930, primer registro para la costa de Chile (Pisces: Gadiformes: Melanonidae). Estudios Oceanograficos, 10, 113 - 116.
  • Moore, J. A., Hartel, K. E., Craddock, J. E. & Galbraith, J. K. (2003) An annotated list of deepwater fishes from off the New England region, with new area records. Northeastern Naturalist, 10, 159 - 248. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3858285
  • Mundy, B. C. (2005) Checklist of the Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.