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Lampris megalopsis Underkoffler, Luers, Hyde, & Craig 2018
Description
Lampris megalopsis Underkoffler, Luers, Hyde, & Craig, 2018.
Bigeye Pacific Opah. Maximum length to at least 124 cm (48.8 in) FL (Matthew Craig, pers. comm. to M.L.) and undocumented to 183 cm (72 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Circumglobal; at least California and Chile (John Hyde, pers. comm. to M.L.). Pelagic, oceanic; depth: surface to perhaps 736 m (2,414 ft) (Polovina et al. 2008).
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 74, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lampridae
- Genus
- Lampris
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lampriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Underkoffler, Luers, Hyde, & Craig
- Species
- megalopsis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lampris megalopsis Underkoffler, 2018 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Craig, M. T., Burke, J., Clifford, K., Mochon-Collura, E., Chapman, J. W. & Hyde, J. R. (2018) Trans-Pacific rafting in tsunami associated debris by the Japanese yellowtail jack, Seriola aureovittata Temminck & Schlegel, 1845 (Pisces, Carangidae). Aquatic Invasions, 13, 173 - 177. https: // doi. org / 10.3391 / ai. 2018.13.1.13
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Polovina, J. J., Hawn, D. & Abecassis, M. (2008) Vertical movement and habitat of opah (Lampris guttata) in the central North Pacific recorded with pop-up archival tags. Marine Biology, 153, 257 - 267. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00227 - 007 - 0801 - 2