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Argyropelecus aculeatus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1850

Description

Argyropelecus aculeatus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1850 — Lovely hatchetfish

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from off south of Ambu Village, western New Ireland by Borodulina (1978: 41)

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 3.—General distribution: circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate oceans. Bathypelagic, 100–600 m depth. Marine.

Notes

Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163

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References

  • Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. & Valenciennes, A. (1850) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome vingt-deuxieme. Suite du livre vingtdeuxieme. Suite de la famille des Salmonoides. Table generale de l'Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. P. Bertrand, Paris, xx + 1 + 532 + 91 pp, pls. 634 - 650. [Author: Valenciennes.]
  • Borodulina, O. D. (1978) Materials on the systematics and distribution of the oceanic hatchet fishes genera Argyropelecus and Sternoptyx (Sternoptychidae, Osteichthyes). Trudy Instituta Okeanologii, Akademija Nauk SSSR, 111, 28 - 60.