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Lipariscus nanus Gilbert 1915

Description

Lipariscus nanus Gilbert, 1915.

Pygmy Snailfish. To 7.1 cm (2.8 in) SL (Kido 1993). Southern Sea of Okhotsk off Hokkaido, vicinity of Commander Islands, and western Bering Sea; along Aleutian Islands from Unimak Pass to Rat Islands (Maslenikov et al. 2013), eastern Bering Sea to Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Monterey Bay, central California (Stein 1978). Depth: 58–910 m (190–2,985 ft) (min.: Gilbert 1915; max.: Kido 1988). A specimen (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington, UW 117779), originally identified as this species, and both larger and deeper than previous maxima, is Rhinoliparis attenuatus Burke, 1912 (Katherine Maslenikov).

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 141, 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.
  • Kido, K. (1993) New records of Paraliparis pectoralis and P. nanus (Liparidae) from Japan. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 40, 107 - 109.
  • Maslenikov, K. P., Orr, J. W. & Stevenson, D. W. (2013) Range extensions and significant distributional records for eighty-two species of fishes in Alaskan marine waters. Northwestern Naturalist, 94, 1 - 21. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / 12 - 23.1
  • Stein, D. L. (1978) A review of the deepwater Liparidae (Pisces) from the coast of Oregon and adjacent waters. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, No. 127.
  • Kido, K. (1988) Phylogeny of the family Liparididae, with the taxonomy of the species found around Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Fisheries Hokkaido University, 35, 125 - 256.