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Bathytroctes macrolepis Gunther 1887

Description

Bathytroctes macrolepis Günther, 1887.

40 cm (15.7 in) SL (Froese and Pauly 2019; note that we were unable to verify this record). Circumglobal; about 290 km (179.8 mi) west of Cape Mendocino, northern California (Stein 1985, as Belocia alvifrons) to Islas Tres Marias (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); Chile (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Depth: about 740 to 5,850 m (2,427 –19,188 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Sazonov 1999).

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

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References

  • Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (Eds). (2019) FishBase. World Wide Web Electronic Publication. www. fishbase. org, version (12 / 2019).
  • Stein, D. L. (1985) Towing large nets by single warp at abyssal depths: methods and biological results. Deep-Sea Research, 32, 183 - 200.
  • Sazonov, Y. I. (1999) On the revision of the genus Bathytroctes Gunther (Alepocephalidae): a review of the abyssobenthopelagic forms (previously referred to the genus Nomoctes) with a description of two new species. Journal of Ichthyology, 39, 699 - 712.