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Laemonema verecundum

Description

Laemonema verecundum (Jordan & Cramer, 1897).

Bighead Mora. To 11 cm (4.3 in) TL (Paulin in Fischer et al. 1995). Southern Baja California (24°19.8’N) (Cruz-Acevedo et al. 2018) to about 15°N and Isla Clarión, Islas Revillagigedo, Mexico (Ambrose in Moser 1996). Mesopelagic; depth: 137 m to perhaps 2,287 m (450–7,501 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Recently as Microlepedium verecunda.

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

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References

  • Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
  • Cruz-Acevedo, E., Tolimieri, N. & Aguirre-Villasenor, H. (2018) Deep-sea fish assemblages (300 - 2100 m) in the eastern Pacific off northern Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 592, 225 - 242. https: // doi. org / 10.3354 / meps 12502
  • Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.