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Gigantura indica Brauer 1901
Description
Gigantura indica Brauer, 1901.
Pacific Telescopefish. To 20 cm (8 in) TL (Fitch Lavenberg 1968). Circumglobal (Russell in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016); southern California (as far north as 34°31’N) (NWFSC-FRAM); northern Baja California; north of Hawai’i (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). Depth: 17–3,915 m (56–12,840 ft) (min.: Johnson and Bertelsen 1991; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Bathyleptus lisae Walters, 1961, 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 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Giganturidae
- Genus
- Gigantura
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Aulopiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Brauer
- Species
- indica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gigantura indica Brauer, 1901 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Carpenter, K. E. & De Angelis, N. (Eds.). (2016) The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Volume 2: Bivalves, Gastropods, Hagfishes, Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras, Volume 3: Bony Fishes Part 1 (Elopiformes to Scorpaeniformes). Volume 4: Bony Fishes Part 2 (Perciformes to Tetradontiformes) and Sea turtles. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes, Rome, FAO.
- Fitch, J. E. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1968) Deep-Water Fishes of California. California Natural History Guides, No. 25, University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Johnson, R. K. & Bertelsen, E. (1991) The fishes of the family Giganturidae: systematics, development, distribution, and aspects of biology. Dana Report, No. 91.