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Benthosema pterotum
Description
* Benthosema pterotum (Alcock, 1890).
To 5.5 cm (2.2 in) SL. Indo-Pacific (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); western Pacific Ocean north to central Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002). While adults have not been collected within our range, larvae identified as this species have been taken as far north as Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Moser et al. 1994). Mesopelagic; depth: 10–300 m (33–984 ft) (Fricke et al. 2019).
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Myctophidae
- Genus
- Benthosema
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Myctophiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Alcock
- Species
- pterotum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Benthosema pterotum (Alcock, 1890) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Moser, H. G., Charter, R. L., Smith, P. E., Ambrose, D. A., Charter, S. R., Meyer, C. A., Sandknop, E. M. & Watson, W. W. (1994) Distribution atlas of the fish larvae in the California Current region: taxa with less than 1000 total larva 1951 through 1984. CalCOFI Atlas, No. 32.
- Fricke, R., Allen, G. R., Amon, D., Andrefouet, S., Chen, W. - J., Kinch, J., Mana, R., Russel, B. C., Tully, D. & White, W. T. (2019) Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records. Zootaxa, 4588, 1 - 360. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4588.1.1