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Issue: Vol. 4664 No. 3: 4 Sept. 2019
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-09-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4664.3.11
Page range: 441–444
Abstract views: 86
PDF downloaded: 5

First Record of the Ceratioid Anglerfish Species Gigantactis microdontis (Teleostei: Lophiiformes: Gigantactinidae) in the Western Pacific Ocean

A. N. Severtsov’s Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninski prospekt, 33, Moscow 119071, Russia*, and P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovsky prospect 36, Moscow 117218, Russia
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Campus Box 355020, Seattle, Washington 98105-5020, USA.
Pisces whipnose seadevils range extension tropical Pacific Ocean

Abstract

The rare ceratioid anglerfish Gigantactis microdontis was formerly known from 12 specimens collected in the Eastern Pacific from 158° W eastward: off Hawaiian Islands, Oregon, California and Peru. Thirteenth specimen reported herein extends the known distribution of this species some 7630 km westward into the western tropical Pacific (off Caroline Islands). The newly reported specimen shows no principal differences in morphology from the previously known individuals.

 

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