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Himantolophus nigricornis Bertelsen & Krefft 1988

Description

Himantolophus nigricornis Bertelsen & Krefft, 1988.

Black Horned Footballfish. To 19.7 cm (7.8 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Indo-Pacific; Monterey Bay, central California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); San Clemente Basin, southern California. Depth: scanty catch data imply this species may live at between at least 219–2,500 m (720–8,200 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Bertelsen and Krefft 1988).

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

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References

  • Bertelsen, E. & Krefft, G. (1988) The ceratioid family Himantolophidae (Pisces, Lophiiformes). Steenstrupia, 14 (2), 9 - 89.