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Phyllorhinichthys micractis Pietsch 1969

Description

Phyllorhinichthys micractis Pietsch, 1969.

To 18.3 cm (7.2 in) SL (Pietsch 2009). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean off Japan (Pietsch 1972); Emperor Seamounts, and Line Islands (Pietsch 2004); off Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Pietsch 1969). Probably mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: taken by open nets fishing to maximum depth of 3,600 m (11,811 ft) (Pietsch 2004); at least as shallow as 1,800 m (5,904 ft) (Porteiro et al. 2017).

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

  • Pietsch, T. W. (1969) A remarkable new genus and species of deep-sea angler-fish (Family Oneirodidae) from off Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Copeia, 1969, 365 - 369.
  • Pietsch, T. W. (2009) Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • Pietsch, T. W. (1972) A review of the monotypic deep-sea anglerfish family Centrophrynidae: taxonomy, distribution and osteology. Copeia, 1972, 17 - 47.
  • Pietsch, T. W. (2004) Revision of the deep-sea anglerfish Phyllorhinichthys Pietsch (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei: Oneirodidae), with a description of a new species from the Atlantic Ocean. Copeia, 2004, 797 - 803. https: // doi. org / 10.1643 / ci- 04 - 105 r
  • Porteiro, F. M., Sutton, T., Byrkjedal, I., Orlov, A. M. & Heino, M. (2017) Fishes of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge collected during the MAR-ECO cruise in June - July 2004: an annotated checklist. Arquipelago, Supplement 10.