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