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Bajacalifornia megalops
Description
Bajacalifornia megalops (Lütken, 1898).
Bigeye Smooth-head. About 40 cm (15.7 in) (Roberts et al. 2015). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to northern Japan (B. erimoensis, Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); southeastern Bering Sea (54°08’N, 167°51’W); also three records from U.S. West Coast, off Washington (47°52’N, 125°52’W), Oregon (45°47’N, 124°46.8’W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013), and southern California (33°23.4’N, 119°58.2’W), southern California (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; as Bajacalifornia erimoensis). Depth: 150–3,200 m (492–10,496 ft) (Kamikawa 2017). Bajacalifornia erimoensis Amaoka & Abe, 1977 is a junior synonym.
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 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Alepocephalidae
- Genus
- Bajacalifornia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Osmeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lutken
- Species
- megalops
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bajacalifornia megalops (Lutken, 1898) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Roberts, C. D., Stewart, A. L. & Struthers, C. D. (Eds.). (2015) The Fishes of New Zealand. Te Papa Press, Wellington.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- 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
- Kamikawa, D. J. (2017) Survey fishes: an illustrated list of the fishes captured during the Northwest Fisheries Science Center's Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring Division's West Coast Surveys. NOAA Technical Memoradum, NMFS-NWFSC- 138.