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Himantolophus sagamius
Description
Himantolophus sagamius (Tanaka, 1918).
Pacific Footballfish. To 38 cm (15 in) SL (Klepadlo et al. 2003). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan; off Kamchatka (Kharin 2006a); northern California (Bertelsen and Krefft 1988) to Chile (Pequeño 1997). Depth: 300–1,300 m (984–4,264 ft) (min.: Michael Schaadt, pers. comm. to M.L.; max.: Bertelsen and Krefft 1988). Reported as Himantolophus sp. in Lea (1988). Classified by some authors as a synonym of Himantolophus groenlandicus Reinhardt, 1837.
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Himantolophidae
- Genus
- Himantolophus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lophiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Tanaka
- Species
- sagamius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Himantolophus sagamius (Tanaka, 1918) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Klepadlo, C., Hastings, P. A. & Rosenblatt, R. H. (2003) Pacific footballfish, Himantolophus sagamius (Tanaka) (Teleostei: Himantolophidae), found in the surf-zone at Del Mar, San Diego County, California, with notes on its morphology. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 102, 99 - 106.
- Kharin, V. E. (2006 a) Himantolophus sagamius (Himantolophidae), a new fish species for fauna of Russia. Journal of Ichthyology, 46, 274 - 275. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945206030088
- Bertelsen, E. & Krefft, G. (1988) The ceratioid family Himantolophidae (Pisces, Lophiiformes). Steenstrupia, 14 (2), 9 - 89.
- Pequeno R., G. (1997) Peces de Chile. Lista sistematica revisada y comentada: addendum. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 32, 77 - 94.
- Lea, R. N. (1988) Family Himantolophidae added to the ichthyofauna of the temperate eastern North Pacific. California Fish and Game, 74, 180 - 182.