Published October 19, 2021 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Barbourisia rufa Parr 1945

Description

Barbourisia rufa Parr, 1945.

Red Whalefish. To 41 cm (16.1 in) TL (Melendez C. et al. 1991). Circumglobal at low latitudes; recorded as far north as Greenland (Amaoka in Okamura et al. 1995); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Amaoka in Masuda et al. 1984), Russian north-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); Emperor Seamounts; Hawai’i (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); Bering Sea (55°59’N, 168°45’W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013), and Pacific Ocean south of Amukta Pass, Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); off Washington (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to north-central California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to southern Chile (44°53’S, 73°30’W) (Meléndez C. et al. 1991). Pelagic and benthopelagic; depth: 120–2,000 m (394–6,562 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).

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

Files

Files (1.2 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:2692386f55af5d60f24cb5839224d00e
1.2 kB Download

System files (9.4 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:5b8e61c661e93f35fd477465ba430dcc
9.4 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

References

  • Okamura, O., Amaoka, K., Takeda, M., Yano, K., Okuda, K. & Chikuni, S. (1995) Fishes Collected by the R / V Shinkai Maru Around Greenland. Japan Marine Fishery Resources Research Center.
  • Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. 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
  • Maslenikov, K. P., Orr, J. W. & Stevenson, D. W. (2013) Range extensions and significant distributional records for eighty-two species of fishes in Alaskan marine waters. Northwestern Naturalist, 94, 1 - 21. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / 12 - 23.1
  • 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.