Malacosteus niger Ayres 1848

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Stomiiformes; Stomiidae; Malacosteus; Malacosteus niger; Yukon; Bering Sea; Pacific; Milton; Scripps; Archipelago; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5601675; https://zenodo.org/record/5601675

Malacosteus niger Ayres, 1848. Spotlight Loosejaw or Shortnose Loosejaw. To 24 cm (9.4 in) SL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984); western Bering Sea northeast of Commander Islands (Balanov and Fedorov 1996); British Columbia (Gillespie 1993) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: surface to 3,886 m (12,824 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Machida in Okamura and Kitajima 1984). : 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 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.", "Balanov, A. A. & Fedorov, V. V. (1996) About some deep-sea fishes new to the Bering Sea fauna. Journal of Ichthyology, 36, 313 - 316.", "Gillespie, G. E. (1993) An updated list of the fishes of British Columbia, and those of interest in adjacent waters, with numeric code designations. Canadian Technical Report Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 1918.", "Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.", "Okamura, O. & Kitajima, T. (Eds.). (1984) Fishes of the Okinawa Trough and the Adjacent waters. Volume 1. The Intensive Research of Unexploited Fishery Resources on Continental Slopes. Japan Fisheries Conservation Association, Tokyo."]}