Spectrunculus grandis

• 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; Ophidiiformes; Ophidiidae; Spectrunculus; Spectrunculus grandis; Gulf of Alaska; Milton; Pacific; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Russian North; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822373; https://zenodo.org/record/5822373

Spectrunculus grandis (Günther, 1877). Giant Cusk-eel . To 138 cm (54.3 in) TL (Abe and Hiramoto 1984). Circumglobal (Nielsen and Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Machida et al. 1987), and Russian north-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); northern Gulf of Alaska to central California (34°50’N, 123°00’W) (Priede et al. 2019), and to northern Chile (23°29’S) (Kong et al. 1988), including Gulf of California. Benthopelagic at bathyal and abyssal depths (Nielsen and Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999); depth: voucher specimens from depths of about 800–4,332 m (2,625 –14,209 ft) (min.: Nielsen and Hureau 1980; max.: Linley et al. 2017), and photographs of individuals just above the bottom as deep as 6,273 m (20,580 ft) (Machida et al. 1987). : 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 84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Abe, T. & Hiramoto, K. (1984) Records of Spectrunculus gigas [sic; grandis] (Gunther) (Ophidiidae, Teleostei) from off Boso Peninsula, Japan. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 34, 1 - 3.", "Nielsen, J. G., Cohen, D. M., Markle, D. F. & Robins, C. R. (1999) FAO species catalogue. Volume 18. Ophidiiform fishes of the world (Order Ophidiiformes). FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125. FAO, Rome.", "Machida, Y., Ohta, S. & Okamura, O. (1987) Newly obtained specimens and information on a deep-sea fish Spectrunculus grandis (Gunther) (Ophidiidae, Ophidiiformes) from Japan. Reports of the Usa Marine Biological Institute, Kochi University, 9, 189 - 200.", "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", "Priede, I. G., Drazen, J. C., Bailey, D. M., Kuhnz, L. A. & Fabian, D. (2019) Abyssal demersal fishes recorded at station M (34 \u00b0 50 ' N, 123 \u00b0 00 ' W, 4100 m depth) in the northeast Pacific Ocean: an annotated check list and synthesis. Deep-Sea Research Part II, 173. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. dsr 2.2019.104648", "Kong, I., Melendez, C. R. & Henriquez, A. G. (1988) Los peces ophidiiformes de aguas profundas entre Arica (18 \u00b0 19 ' S) e Isla Mocha (38 \u00b0 30 ' S). Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 7, 1 - 15.", "Linley, T. D., Stewart, A. L., McMillan, P. J., Clark, M. R., Gerringer, M. E., Drazen, J. C., Fujii, T. & Jamieson, A. J. (2017) Bait attending fishes of the abyssal zone and hadal boundary: community structure,"]}