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Ceratias holboelli Kroyer 1845

Description

Ceratias holboelli Krøyer, 1845.

Northern Giant Seadevil or Northern Seadevil. To at least 85.5 cm (33.7 in) SL (Theodore Pietsch). A maximum size of 152.4 cm (60 in) TL in Kamikawa (2017) is a misprint. Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan; Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and off British Columbia and central California; Hawai’i (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Larvae reported from off Punta Eugenia, southern Baja California (Funes-Rodríguez et al. 2011). Depth: 120–3,400 m (394–11,154 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); also reported at surface (Porteiro et al. 2017), but without documentation.

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

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References

  • Kamikawa, D. J. (2017) Survey fishes: an illustrated list of the fishes captured during the Northwest Fisheries Science Center's Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring Division's West Coast Surveys. NOAA Technical Memoradum, NMFS-NWFSC- 138.
  • 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.