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Anotopterus nikparini Kukuev 1998
Description
Anotopterus nikparini Kukuev, 1998.
Daggertooth or North Pacific Daggertooth. To 146 cm (57.5 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). South of Japan to southern Bering Sea, and Gulf of Alaska, to south of Baja California (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). An Anotopterus reported from the Gulf of California (Castro-Aguirre 1991) is likely this species. Primarily epipelagic and mesopelagic; depth: near surface (at night) to 2,750 m (9,022 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Includes North Pacific records of Anotopterus pharao. Also placed in the family Anotopteridae (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 63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Anotopteridae
- Genus
- Anotopterus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Aulopiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Kukuev
- Species
- nikparini
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Anotopterus nikparini Kukuev, 1998 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Castro-Aguirre, J. L. (1991) Nuevos registros de peces mesopelagicos y bentonicos en el Golfo de California, Mexico. Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologias de Mexico, 35, 71 - 89.
- 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).