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Gempylus serpens Cuvier 1829

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Description

Gempylus serpens Cuvier, 1829.

Snake Mackerel. To 140.5 cm (55.3 in) TL (Choy and Drazen 2013). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); San Pedro, southern California to central Chile (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968), including lowermost Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic epipelagic and mesopelagic; depth: surface to 1,000 m (3,280 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2008).

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

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URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF41FF6598EAFA1CF8D2369C

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FF41FF6598EAFA1CF8D2369C (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191884171 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FF41FF6598EAFA1CF8D2369C.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Gempylidae
Genus
Gempylus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Cuvier
Species
serpens
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gempylus serpens Cuvier, 1829 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Choy, C. A. & Drazen, J. C. (2013) Plastic for dinner? Observations of frequent debris ingestion by pelagic predatory fishes from the central North Pacific. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 485, 155 - 163. https: // doi. org / 10.3354 / meps 10342
  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Fitch, J. E. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1968) Deep-Water Fishes of California. California Natural History Guides, No. 25, University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.