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Cetostoma regani Zugmayer 1914

Description

Cetostoma regani Zugmayer, 1914.

Pink Flabby Whalefish. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL (Paxton and Johnson in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); Oregon (Matarese et al. 1989) to southern Baja California (25°48’N, 114°46’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic (Paxton and Johnson in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016); depth: 400 to about 3,700 m (1,312 –12,136 ft) (min.: Paxton 1989; max.: Paxton and Johnson in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016), and perhaps shallower (Paxton 1989).

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

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References

  • Carpenter, K. E. & De Angelis, N. (Eds.). (2016) The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Volume 2: Bivalves, Gastropods, Hagfishes, Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras, Volume 3: Bony Fishes Part 1 (Elopiformes to Scorpaeniformes). Volume 4: Bony Fishes Part 2 (Perciformes to Tetradontiformes) and Sea turtles. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes, Rome, FAO.
  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Matarese, A. C., Kendall Jr., A. W., Blood, D. M. & Vintner, B. M. (1989) Laboratory guide to early life history stages of northeast Pacific fishes. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 80.
  • Paxton, J. R. (1989) Synopsis of the whalefishes (family Cetomimidae) with descriptions of four new genera. Records of the Australiam Museum, 41, 135 - 206.