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Thaumatichthys axeli
Description
Thaumatichthys axeli (Bruun, 1953).
To 36.5 cm (14.4 in) SL. Two known specimens: one from Patton escarpment, well off southern California; the other from 9°23’N, 87°32’W. Both specimens from deep water; the southern California fish was taken in an otter trawl at 3,578–3,671 m (11,736–12,041 ft), the second fish in a herring otter trawl at 3,570 m (11,710 ft). All in Bertelsen and Struhsaker (1977).
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 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bruun
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Lophiiformes
- Family
- Thaumatichthyidae
- Genus
- Thaumatichthys
- Species
- axeli
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thaumatichthys axeli (Bruun, 1953) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Bertelsen, E. & Struhsaker, P. J. (1977) The ceratioid fishes of the genus Thaumatichthys: osteology, relationships, distribution, and biology. Galathea Reports, 14, 7 - 40.