Gigantactis gargantua Bertelsen, Pietsch, & Lavenberg 1981 ...

• 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; Lophiiformes; Gigantactinidae; Gigantactis; Gigantactis gargantua; Milton; Morro; Pacific; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603624; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5603624

Gigantactis gargantua Bertelsen, Pietsch, & Lavenberg, 1981. To 40.8 cm (16.1 in) SL (Bertelsen et al. 1981). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to northern Honshu, Japan (Amaoka in Amaoka et al. 1983); Hawai’i; and southern California (Bertelsen et al. 1981), also offshore of Morro Bay, central California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). One probable record off northern Oregon (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Mesopelagic to bathypelagic; depth: taken in open nets fished to maximum depths of 500–1,535 m (1,640 –5,036 ft) (min.: Bertelsen et al. 1981; max.: Amaoka in Amaoka et al. 1983). ... : 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 ...