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Benthosema glaciale
Description
Benthosema glaciale (Reinhardt, 1837).
Glacier Lanternfish. To 10.3 cm (4.1 in) SL (Hulley in Okamura et al. 1995). (The maximum size of 10.3 cm has been reported as both TL and SL.) Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea (Hulley in Whitehead et al. 1984); one record from Point Barrow, Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2016); Canadian Arctic (Coad in Coad and Reist 201); Laptev Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Mesopelagic; depth: surface to 1,456 m (4,776 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2016).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Myctophidae
- Genus
- Benthosema
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Myctophiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Reinhardt
- Species
- glaciale
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Benthosema glaciale (Reinhardt, 1837) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Okamura, O., Amaoka, K., Takeda, M., Yano, K., Okuda, K. & Chikuni, S. (1995) Fishes Collected by the R / V Shinkai Maru Around Greenland. Japan Marine Fishery Resources Research Center.
- Whitehead, P. J. P., Bauchot, M. - L., Hureau, J. - C., Nielsen, J. & Tortonese, E. (Eds.). (1984) Fishes of the North-Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Volume I. UNESCO, Paris. [Reprint with corrections, 1989.]
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A., Sheiko, B. A. & Steinke, D. (2016) Pacific Arctic Marine Fishes. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.