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Lophiodes caulinaris

Description

Lophiodes caulinaris (Garman, 1899).

Pacific Anglerfish, Pacific Goosefish, Spottedtail Goosefish, or Whitespotted Goosefish. To 44.5 cm (17.5 in) TL (Moncayo-Estrada et al. 2006). Central California (about 37°N, 122°W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Callao, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Caruso 1981), and various offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). One record, possibly in error, from Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: 15–888 m (49–2,913 ft) (min.: Caruso 1981; max.: Jacobsen Stout et al. 2016).

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

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References

  • Moncayo-Estrada, R., Castro-Aguirre, J. L. & de la Cruz-Aguero, J. (2006) A fish checklist for the ichthyofauna of Bahia de Banderas, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 77, 67 - 80 [In Spanish].
  • Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
  • Caruso, J. (1981) The systematics and distribution of the lophiid anglerfishes: I. A revision of the genus Lophiodes with the description of two new species. Copeia, 1981, 522 - 549.
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Jacobsen Stout, N., Kuhnz, L., Lundsten, L., Schlining, B., Schlining, K. & von Thun, S. (Eds.). (2016) T he Deep-Sea Guide (DSG). Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. http: // dsg. mbari. org. Accessed 30 September 2016.