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Oneirodes acanthias

Description

Oneirodes acanthias (Gilbert, 1915).

Southern Spiny Dreamer. To 16.7 cm (6.6 in) SL (Pietsch 1974), perhaps to 20 cm (8 in) TL (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). West of north end of Vancouver Island (50°13’N, 129°46’W) (Weil et al. 2015) to southern Baja California (26°51’N) (Pietsch 1974). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: concentrated at 500–1,250 m (1,650 –4,125 ft) (Pietsch 1974), and perhaps to 3,290 ft (10,791 ft) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).

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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References

  • Gilbert, C. H. (1915) Fishes collected by the United States steamer " Albatross " in southern California in 1904. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 48, 305 - 380.
  • Pietsch, T. W. (1974) Osteology and relationships of ceratioid anglerfishes of the family Oneirodidae, with a review of the genus Oneirodes Lutken. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science, 18.
  • Fitch, J. E. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1968) Deep-Water Fishes of California. California Natural History Guides, No. 25, University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • Weil, J., Hanke, G., Gillespie, G., Fong, K., Boutillier, J., Bedard, J. & Riley, J. (2015) First records and range extensions of deep-sea anglerfishes (families: Oneirodidae, Melanocetidae, Ceratiidae) in British Columbia, Canada. Northwestern Naturalist, 96, 133 - 142. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / 1051 - 1733 - 96.2.133