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Alepisaurus ferox Lowe 1833
Description
Alepisaurus ferox Lowe, 1833.
Longnose Lancetfish. To about 231 cm (90.9 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984), and Sea of Okhotsk, to Bering Sea as far northward as 58°21’N, 175°19’W (Maslenikov et al. 2013), and Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Epipelagic to bathypelagic; depth: near surface to 1,830 m (6,004 ft); primarily oceanic but often found close to shore (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
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 63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Alepisauridae
- Genus
- Alepisaurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Aulopiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lowe
- Species
- ferox
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Alepisaurus ferox Lowe, 1833 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Maslenikov, K. P., Orr, J. W. & Stevenson, D. W. (2013) Range extensions and significant distributional records for eighty-two species of fishes in Alaskan marine waters. Northwestern Naturalist, 94, 1 - 21. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / 12 - 23.1
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.