Coryphaenoides leptolepis Gunther 1877
Description
Coryphaenoides leptolepis Günther, 1877.
Ghostly Grenadier. To 62 cm (24.4 in) TL or more (Geistdoerfer in Quéro et al. 1990). Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Iwamoto and Stein 1974); west of Prince of Wales Island in Gulf of Alaska (Bean 1890; locality corrected in Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and off Dixon Entrance, northern British Columbia (Love et al. 2005) to southwest of Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Iwamoto and Stein 1974). Benthopelagic; depth: 145–4,300 m (476–14,104 ft) (min.: Benson and McFarlane 2008; max.: Gaither et al. 2016). In subgenus Chalinura, which some authors treat as a genus. This account includes Coryphaenoides (Chalinura) liocephalus (Günther, 1887) in the synonymy of C. leptolepis. The two forms could be distinct (although currently this is not considered likely), in which case C. liocephalus would be the name for the Pacific species; see discussion and citations in Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Macrouridae
- Genus
- Coryphaenoides
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Gadiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- leptolepis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Coryphaenoides leptolepis Gunther, 1877 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Quero, J. C., Hureau, J. C., Karrer, C., Post, A. & Saldanha, L. (Eds.). (1990) Check-List of the Fishes of the Eastern Tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). 3 volumes. Junta Nacional de Investigacao Cientifica e Tecnologica, Lisbon, Portugal, European Ichthyological Union, Paris France, and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris.
- Iwamoto, T. & Stein, D. L. (1974) A systematic review of the rattail fishes (Macrouridae: Gadiformes) from Oregon and adjacent waters. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, No. 111.
- Love, M. S., Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2005) Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Divition, Seattle, OCS Study MMS 2005 - 030 and USGS / NBII 2005 - 001.
- Benson, A. J. & McFarlane, G. A. (2008) Distribution and biology of grenadiers of the west coast of Canada. American Fisheries Society Symposium, 63, 81 - 102.
- Gaither, M. R., Violi, B., Gray, H. W. I., Neat, F., Drazen, J. C., Grubbs, R. D., Roa-Varon, A., Sutton, T. & Hoelzel, A. R. (2016) Depth as a driver of evolution in the deep sea: Insights from grenadiers (Gadiformes: Macrouridae) of the genus Coryphaenoides. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 104, 73 - 82. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2016.07.027