Benthodesmus pacificus Parin & Becker 1970

• 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; Trichiuridae; Benthodesmus; Benthodesmus pacificus; Yukon; Pacific; Indian; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609726; https://zenodo.org/record/5609726

Benthodesmus pacificus Parin & Becker, 1970. North Pacific Frostfish . To 112 cm (44.1 in) SL. Kyushu-Palau Ridge and Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Nakamura and Parin 1993); British Columbia and Puget Sound, Washington (Peden and Hughes 1986) to Monterey Bay, central California (Anderson and Cailliet 1975). Benthopelagic; depth: to 380 m (1,246 ft) and deeper, sometimes migrating to surface; juveniles mesopelagic (Nakamura and Parin 1993). Originally described as a subspecies of Benthodesmus elongatus (Clarke, 1879), this form was treated as a full species by Nakamura and Parin (1993) and recognized as such by Nelson et al. (2004); B. pacificus occurs in the North Pacific, whereas B. elongatus occurs in the Southern Hemisphere in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans. Records from British Columbia and Washington (Peden and Hughes 1986) were reported as Benthodesmus tenuis (Günther, 1877). : 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 210, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Nakamura, I. & Parin, N. V. (1993) FAO species catalogue. Volume 15. Snake mackerels and cutlassfishes of the world. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125, Volume 15. FAO, Rome.", "Peden, A. E. & Hughes, G. W. (1986) First records, confirmatory records, and range extensions of marine fishes off Canada's west coast. Canadian Field-Naturalist, 100, 1 - 9.", "Anderson, M. E. & Cailliet, G. M. (1975) Occurrence of the rare North Pacific frostfish, Benthodesmus elongatus pacificus Parin and Becker, 1970, in Monterey Bay, California. California Fish and Game, 61, 149 - 153."]}