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Lestidiops ringens

Description

Lestidiops ringens (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880).

Slender Barracudina. To 25.2 cm (9.9 in) SL (Balanov et al. 2009). Northern Japan (Balanov et al. 2009); Pacific Ocean off southern Kuril Islands (Parin et al. 1995) to southern Kamchatka; western Bering Sea near Alaska border (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Gulf of Alaska (58°21’N, 147°51’W) (Stevenson et al. 2009) to southern Baja California (26°33’N, 115°41’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and Gulf of California (Castro-Aguirre 1991). Larvae have been taken in a number of locations in southern Baja California waters, as far south as about 25°N (Moser et al. 1993). Primarily mesopelagic (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 9–3,920 m (30–12,861 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Hart 1973).

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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References

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  • Stevenson, D. E. & Sheiko, B. A. (2009) Clarification of the Lycodes diapterus species complex (Perciformes: oarcidae), with comments on the subgenus Furcimanus. Copeia, 2009, 125 - 137. https: // doi. org / 10.1643 / ci- 08 - 069
  • 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.
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  • Hart, J. L. (1973) Pacific Fishes of Canada. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 180.