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Trachipterus altivelis Kner 1859
Description
Trachipterus altivelis Kner, 1859.
King-of-the-Salmon. To 245 cm (96 in) TL (Savinkyh and Baitalyuk 2011). South-eastern Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Primarily mesopelagic as adults (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); depth: surface to 1,231 m (4,038 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max: NWFSC-FRAM). Considered a synonym of the circumglobal species Trachipterus trachypterus (Gmelin, 1789) by some (Savinykh and Baitalyuk 2011).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Trachipteridae
- Genus
- Trachipterus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lampriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Kner
- Species
- altivelis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Trachipterus altivelis Kner, 1859 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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.
- Savinykh, V. F. & Baitalyuk, A. A. (2011) Taxonomic status of ribbonfishes of the genus Trachypterus (Trachipteridae) from the northern part of the Pacific Ocean. Journal of Ichthyology, 51, 581 - 589. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945211040175