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Malacocephalus laevis
Description
Malacocephalus laevis (Lowe, 1843).
Softhead Grenadier or Velvet Grenadier. To 65.5 cm (25.8 in) TL (Tomio Iwamoto, pers. comm. to M.L.). Circumglobal; Point Sur, central California (Hoff 1999) to Baja California (Sazonov and Iwamoto 1992); Chile (Pequeño 1989). Benthopelagic; depth: 50–1,200 m (164–3,936 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max. Pakhorukov 2008). Maximum depth perhaps of a specimen taken in midwaters over deeper waters (Tomio Iwamoto, pers. comm. to M.L.).
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 77, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Macrouridae
- Genus
- Malacocephalus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Gadiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lowe
- Species
- laevis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Malacocephalus laevis (Lowe, 1843) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Hoff, G. R. (1999) Range extensions of three species of macrourids from the west coast of North America. California Fish and Game, 85, 113 - 117.
- Sazonov, Y. I. & Iwamoto, T. 1992. Grenadiers (Pisces, Gadiformes) of the Nazca and Sala y Gomez Ridges, southeastern Pacific. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 48, 27 - 95.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Pakhorukov, N. P. (2008) Visual observations of fish from seamounts of the southern Azores region (the Atlantic Ocean). Journal of Ichthyology, 48, 114 - 123. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945208010104