Melanostigma pammelas Gilbert 1896

• 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; Perciformes; Zoarcidae; Melanostigma; Melanostigma pammelas; Milton; Pacific; Scripps; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5608157; https://zenodo.org/record/5608157

Melanostigma pammelas Gilbert, 1896. Midwater Eelpout or Pacific Softpout. To 12.2 cm (4.8 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); 13.3 cm (5.2 in) TL (Lancraft 1982). South of Umnak-Unalaska Islands (53°25’N, 168°10’W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico (Anderson 1994). Mesopelagic and possibly bathypelagic; depth: collected in nets towed from 91–2,012 m (298–6,601 ft) (min.: Kamikawa 2017; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002). : 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 185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Gilbert, C. H. (1896) Appendix 6. The ichthyological collections of the steamer Albatross during the years 1890 and 1891. Report of the United States Fish Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1893, 19, 393 - 476.", "Lancraft, H. T. M. (1982) Aspects of the Natural History of Melanostima pammelas (Pisces: Zoarcidae). Masters Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara.", "Maslenikov, K. P., Orr, J. W. & Stevenson, D. W. (2013) Range extensions and significant distributional records for eighty-two species of fishes in Alaskan marine waters. Northwestern Naturalist, 94, 1 - 21. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / 12 - 23.1", "Anderson, M. E. (1994) Systematics and osteology of the Zoarcidae (Teleostei: Perciformes). Ichthyology Bulletin of the J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Ichthyology, Bulletin No. 60.", "Kamikawa, D. J. (2017) Survey fishes: an illustrated list of the fishes captured during the Northwest Fisheries Science Center's Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring Division's West Coast Surveys. NOAA Technical Memoradum, NMFS-NWFSC- 138."]}