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Gigantactis macronema Regan 1925

Description

Gigantactis macronema Regan, 1925.

Longpole Whipnose. To 35.4 cm (13.9 in) SL (Bertelsen et al. 1981). Eastern North Pacific and Atlantic Oceans; Hawai’i; northern California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California), southern California, and Baja California (Bertelsen et al. 1981). Mesopelagic to bathypelagic; depth: taken in open nets fished to maximum depths of 650–2,500 m (2,132 –8,202 ft) (Bertelsen et al. 1981).

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

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References

  • Bertelsen, E., Pietsch. T. W. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1981) Ceratioid anglerfishes of the family Gigantactinidae: morphology, systematics and distribution. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science, 332.