Trachipterus altivelis Kner 1859

• 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; Trachipteridae; Trachipterus; Trachipterus altivelis; Yukon; Baja; Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Milton; Scripps; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822227; https://zenodo.org/record/5822227

Trachipterus altivelis Kner, 1859. King-of-the-Salmon . To 245 cm (96 in) TL (Savinkyh and Baitalyuk 2011). South-eastern Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Primarily mesopelagic as adults (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); depth: surface to 1,231 m (4,038 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max: NWFSC-FRAM). Considered a synonym of the circumglobal species Trachipterus trachypterus (Gmelin, 1789) by some (Savinykh and Baitalyuk 2011). : 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": ["Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.", "Savinykh, V. F. & Baitalyuk, A. A. (2011) Taxonomic status of ribbonfishes of the genus Trachypterus (Trachipteridae) from the northern part of the Pacific Ocean. Journal of Ichthyology, 51, 581 - 589. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945211040175"]}