Melanocetus johnsonii Gunther 1864

• 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; Melanocetidae; Melanocetus; Melanocetus johnsonii; Yukon; Canada; Pacific; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; British Columbia; Theodore; Milton; Riley; Beaufort Sea; Russian North; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818934; https://zenodo.org/record/5818934

Melanocetus johnsonii Günther, 1864. Blackdevil . To 15.4 cm (6.1 in) SL (Theodore Pietsch), 18 cm (7.1 in) TL (Pietsch 1986). A record of 64 cm (25.2 in) SL (Kong and Meléndez 1991) is an error. Circumglobal (Pietsch in Smith and Heemstra 1986); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002) and Russian North Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); as far north as off British Columbia (48°41’N, 126°30’W) (Weil et al. 2015) and south to northern Chile (31°14’S) (Kong and Meléndez 1991). Depth: about 100–3,603 m (328–11,818 ft) (min.: Bertelsen in Whitehead et al. 1986; max.: Porteiro et al. 2017). A record of 4,500 m (14,760 ft) (Froese and Pauly 2019) is an error (Theodore Pietsch). : 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 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Pietsch, T. W. (1986) Systematics and distribution of bathypelagic anglerfishes of the family Ceratiidae (order: Lophiiformes). Copeia, 1986, 479 - 493.", "Kong, I. & Melendez, C. R. (1991) Estudio taxonomico y sistematico de la ictiofauna de aguas profundas capturada entie Arica e Isla Mocha (18 \u00b0 30 ' - 38 \u00b0 30 ' Lat. S). Estudios Oceanograficos, 10, 1 - 81.", "Smith, M. M. & Heemstra, P. C. (Eds.). (1986) Smiths' Sea Fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.", "Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.", "Orlov, A. M. & Tokranov, A. M. (2019) Checklist of deep-sea fishes of the Russian northwestern Pacific Ocean found at depths below 1000 m. Progress in Oceanography, 176, https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pocean. 2019.102143", "Weil, J., Hanke, G., Gillespie, G., Fong, K., Boutillier, J., Bedard, J. & Riley, J. (2015) First records and range extensions of deep-sea anglerfishes (families: Oneirodidae, Melanocetidae, Ceratiidae) in British Columbia, Canada. Northwestern Naturalist, 96, 133 - 142. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / 1051 - 1733 - 96.2.133", "Whitehead, P. J. P., Bauchot, M. - L, Hureau, J. - C, Nielsen, J. & Tortonese, E. (Eds.). (1986) Fishes of the North-Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Volumes II and III. UNESCO, Paris.", "Porteiro, F. M., Sutton, T., Byrkjedal, I., Orlov, A. M. & Heino, M. (2017) Fishes of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge collected during the MAR-ECO cruise in June - July 2004: an annotated checklist. Arquipelago, Supplement 10.", "Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (Eds). (2019) FishBase. World Wide Web Electronic Publication. www. fishbase. org, version (12 / 2019)."]}