Published October 19, 2021 | Version v1
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Zameus cristatus

Description

Zu cristatus (Bonelli, 1820).

Scalloped Ribbonfish. To about 120 cm (47.2 in) TL (Olney and Hartel in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016). Circumglobal (Moore et al. 2003); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hayashi in Nakabo 2002); central California (34°53’N, 124°30’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Chile (Pequeño 1989) and Islas Galápagos (Miller and Lea 1972). Epipelagic to mesopelagic; depth: surface to about 1,200 m (3,936 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Martin 2015). Author’s date listed as Bonelli, 1819 by some authorities.

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

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References

  • Carpenter, K. E. & De Angelis, N. (Eds.). (2016) The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Volume 2: Bivalves, Gastropods, Hagfishes, Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras, Volume 3: Bony Fishes Part 1 (Elopiformes to Scorpaeniformes). Volume 4: Bony Fishes Part 2 (Perciformes to Tetradontiformes) and Sea turtles. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes, Rome, FAO.
  • Moore, J. A., Hartel, K. E., Craddock, J. E. & Galbraith, J. K. (2003) An annotated list of deepwater fishes from off the New England region, with new area records. Northeastern Naturalist, 10, 159 - 248. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3858285
  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
  • Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
  • Martin, J. M. (2015) Phylogeny, Ontogeny and Distribution of the Ribbonfishes (Lampridiformes: Trachipteridae). PhD Thesis, The College of William and Mary.