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Psenes pellucidus Lutken 1880
Description
Psenes pellucidus Lütken, 1880.
Bluefin Driftfish. To 80 cm (31.5 in) TL (Haedrich in Whitehead et al. 1986). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002) and southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); Santa Catalina Island, southern California (Ahlstrom et al. 1976) to southern end of Baja California (Watson in Moser 1996), and about 5°N (Ahlstrom et al. 1976) to Chile (Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Juveniles epipelagic, adults mesopelagic and possibly bathypelagic (Haedrich in Whitehead et al. 1986); depth: 30–1,500 m (98–4,920 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Roberts et al. 2015).
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 214, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nomeidae
- Genus
- Psenes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lutken
- Species
- pellucidus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Psenes pellucidus Lutken, 1880 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Whitehead, P. J. P., Bauchot, M. - L, Hureau, J. - C, Nielsen, J. & Tortonese, E. (Eds.). (1986) Fishes of the North-Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Volumes II and III. UNESCO, Paris.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Parin, N. V. (2003) An annotated catalogue of fish-like vertebrates and fishes of the seas of Russia and adjacent countries: Part 3. Orders Perciformes (excluding suborders Gobioidei, Zoarcoidei and Stichaeoidei) and Tetraodontiformes. Journal of Ichthyology, 43, S 1 - S 40.
- Ahlstrom, E. H., Butler, J. L. & Sumida, B. Y. (1976) Pelagic stromateoid fishes (Pisces, Perciformes) of the eastern Pacific: kinds, distributions, and early life histories and observations on five of these from the northwest Atlantic. Bulletin of Marine Science, 26, 285 - 402.
- Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
- 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.
- Roberts, C. D., Stewart, A. L. & Struthers, C. D. (Eds.). (2015) The Fishes of New Zealand. Te Papa Press, Wellington.