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Microlophichthys microlophus
Description
Microlophichthys microlophus (Regan, 1925).
To 11.3 cm (4.4 in) SL (Poulsen 2019). Circumglobal; well off southern California (32°00’N, 136°12’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: taken as deep as 2,200 m (7,216 ft) or more (Pietsch 2009), and perhaps to 4,000 m (13,123 ft) (Moore et al. 2003).
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 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Oneirodidae
- Genus
- Microlophichthys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lophiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Regan
- Species
- microlophus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microlophichthys microlophus (Regan, 1925) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Poulsen, J. Y. (2019) New records of Leptacanthichthys gracilispinis and Microlophichthys microlophus (Actinopterygii: Lophiiformes: Oneirodidae) from the subarctic Atlantic Ocean, including new lophiiform barcoding data and a rare observation of a copepod parasite in ceratioid anglerfishes. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 49, 403 - 414. https: // doi. org / 10.3750 / aiep / 02639
- Pietsch, T. W. (2009) Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Moore, J. A., Hartel, K. E., Craddock, J. E. & Galbraith, J. K. (2003) An annotated list of deepwater fishes from off the New England region, with new area records. Northeastern Naturalist, 10, 159 - 248. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3858285