Regalecus russelii

• 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; Lampriformes; Regalecidae; Regalecus; Regalecus russelii; Yukon; Pacific; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818922; https://zenodo.org/record/5818922

Regalecus russelii (Cuvier, 1816). Oarfish . To 7–8 m (23–26 ft) (Roberts 2012). Western Pacific Ocean off Japan (Hiyashi in Nakabo 2002); Surf (34°41’N, 120°36’W), California (Richard Feeney, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Panama (Roberts 2012). Primarily epipelagic and mesopelagic (Roberts 2012). We follow Roberts (2012) and separate this species from R. glesne Ascanius, 1772.Also spelled Regalecus russellii by some authorities (Fricke et al. 2020). : 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 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Roberts, T. R. (2012) Systematics, biology and distribution of the species of the oceanic oarfish genus Regalecus (Teloestei, Lampridiformes, Regalecidae). Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 202.", "Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.", "Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021)."]}