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Cherublemma emmelas

Description

Cherublemma emmelas (Gilbert, 1890).

Black Brotula. To 32 cm (12.6 in) TL (Morales-Azpeitia et al. 2018). West of Vancouver Island, British Columbia (49°40’N, 127°46’W) (Hanke et al. 2015), southern Baja California (27°09’N) (Cruz-Acevedo et al. 2018) to northern Chile (20°S) (Sielfeld and Vargas 1996), including Gulf of California (Lea in Fischer et al. 1995). Postflexion larvae (about 3.0 cm, 1.2 in SL) captured off central (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Adults on bottom, juveniles pelagic; depth: 70–1,401 m (230–4,595 ft) (min.: Sielfeld and Vargas 1996; max.: Morera et al. 2019).

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

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References

  • Morales-Azpeitia, R., Lopez-Martinez, J., Herrera-Valdivia, E. & Acevedo-Cervantes, A. (2018) Population dynamics of black brotula (Cherublemma emmelas) in deep waters of the Gulf of California. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 46, 1103 - 1109. https: // doi. org / 10.3856 / vol 46 - issue 5 - fulltext- 22 =
  • Hanke, G., Gillespie, G., Fong, K., Boutillier, J., Nielsen, J., Moller, P., Bedard, J. & J. Riley. (2015) New records of seven cusk-eels (Ophidiidae) and brotulas (Bythitidae) in coastal waters of British Columbia, Canada. Northwestern Naturalist, 96, 71 - 80. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / nwn 14 - 17.1
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Morera, R. B., Calderon, F. C. & Hernandez, J. M. V. (2019) Abundancia, biomasa y estructura de la ictiofauna demersal en el oceano Pacifico de Centroamerica, basadas en datos de prospeccion pesquera realizados a bordo del B / W Miguel Oliver. Revista Ciencias Las Marinas y Costeras, 12, 27 - 47. https: // doi. org / 10.15359 / revmar. 12 - 1.2