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Benthosema glaciale

Description

Benthosema glaciale (Reinhardt, 1837).

Glacier Lanternfish. To 10.3 cm (4.1 in) SL (Hulley in Okamura et al. 1995). (The maximum size of 10.3 cm has been reported as both TL and SL.) Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea (Hulley in Whitehead et al. 1984); one record from Point Barrow, Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2016); Canadian Arctic (Coad in Coad and Reist 201); Laptev Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Mesopelagic; depth: surface to 1,456 m (4,776 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2016).

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

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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.
  • Whitehead, P. J. P., Bauchot, M. - L., Hureau, J. - C., Nielsen, J. & Tortonese, E. (Eds.). (1984) Fishes of the North-Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Volume I. UNESCO, Paris. [Reprint with corrections, 1989.]
  • Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A., Sheiko, B. A. & Steinke, D. (2016) Pacific Arctic Marine Fishes. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.