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Ceratoscopelus townsendi
Description
Ceratoscopelus townsendi (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889).
Dogtooth Lampfish. To about 8.5 cm (3.3 in) SL (Savinykh 1999). Circumglobal; Gulf of Alaska (59°15’N, 142°08’W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; confirmed by Katherine Maslenikov) to southern Baja California (27°01’N, 115°15’W) (De La Cruz-Agüero and Galván-Magaña 1992) and Chile (Pequeño 1989). Larvae have been taken south of Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Moser et al. 1993). Depth: surface to 800 m (2,625 ft) (Wisner 1976), reported but not confirmed to 923 m (3,028 ft) (Lauth 1999).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Myctophidae
- Genus
- Ceratoscopelus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Myctophiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Eigenmann & Eigenmann
- Species
- townsendi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ceratoscopelus townsendi (Eigenmann, 1889) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Savinykh, V. F. (1999) Nektonic community of the epipelagial zone of the Californian Convergence Region in winter. Journal of Ichthyology, 39, 29 - 42.
- De La Cruz-Aguero, J. & Galvan-Magana, F. (1992) Peces mesopelagicos de la costa occidental de Baja California sur y del Gulfo de California. Anales del Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, 19, 25 - 31.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Moser, H. G., Charter, R. L., Smith, P. E., Ambrose, D. A., Charter, S. R., Meyer, C. A., Sandknop, E. M. & Watson, W. W. (1993) Distributional atlas of fish larvae and eggs in the California Current region: taxa with 1000 or more total larvae, 1951 through 1984. CalCOFI Atlas, No. 31.
- Wisner, R. L. (1976) The taxonomy and distribution of lanternfishes (family Myctophidae) of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Navy Ocean Research and Development Activity, Report 3.
- Lauth, R. R. (1999) The 1997 Pacific Coast West Coast upper continental slope trawl survey of groundfish resources off Washington, Oregon, and California: estimates of distribution, abundance, and length composition. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS-AFSC- 97.