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Coryphaenoides armatus

Description

Coryphaenoides armatus (Hector, 1875).

Abyssal Grenadier or Smooth Abyssal Grenadier. To 102 cm (40.2 in) TL (Iwamoto in Cohen et al. 1990). All oceans except central Arctic (Renaud and Coad in Coad and Reist 2018); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan Trench (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); south-eastern Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean south of Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Benthopelagic to bathypelagic (Renaud and Coad in Coad and Reist 2018); depth: about 664–5,900 m (2,178 –19,352 ft) (min.: DFO; max.: King and Priede 2008); reported from much shallower depths (257 m, 843 ft, Renaud and Coad in Coad and Reist 2018; 282 m, 931 ft, Grey 1956), but without documentation.

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

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References

  • Cohen, D. M., Inada, T., Iwamoto, T. & Scialabba, N. (1990) FAO Species Catalogue. Gadiform Fishes of the World. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125, Volume 10. FAO, Rome.
  • Coad, B. W. & Reist, J. D. (Eds.). (2018) Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
  • 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.
  • King, N. J. & Priede, I. G. (2008) Coryphaenoides armatus, the abyssal grenadier: global distribution, abundance, and ecology as determined by baited landers. American Fisheries Society Symposium, 63, 139 - 161.
  • Grey, M. (1956) The distribution of fishes found below a depth of 2000 meters. Fieldiana Zoology, 36, 75 - 337.