Melamphaes lugubris Gilbert 1891 ...

• 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; Stephanoberyciformes; Melamphaidae; Melamphaes; Melamphaes lugubris; Beaufort Sea; Bering Sea; Subarctic; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603763; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5603763

Melamphaes lugubris Gilbert, 1891. Highsnout Bigscale or Highsnout Ridgehead. To 10.9 cm (4.3 in) SL (Sinclair and Stabeno 2002). Subarctic North Pacific from Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984), and Sea of Okhotsk, to Bering Sea (about 56°N), and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to southern Baja California (25°30’N, 115°17’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); one record from off Michoacán (17°54.1’N, 103°23.8’W), Mexico (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Adults mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depths: 150– 2,287 m (492–7,501 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California); juveniles as shallow as 30 m (98 ft) (Personal communication: Russian Academy of Science Ichthyological Collecton at Saint Petersberg). A record of 4,393 m (16,200 ft) (Personal communication: ... : 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 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 ...