Polyacanthonotus challengeri

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Notacanthiformes; Notacanthidae; Polyacanthonotus; Polyacanthonotus challengeri; Beaufort Sea; Bering Sea; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5601282; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF8EFFAA98EAFEB8F97F321C

Polyacanthonotus challengeri (Vaillant, 1888). Longnose Tapirfish . To about 60 cm (23.6 in) TL (Gon in Gon and Heemstra 1990). Circumglobal, predominantly antitropical, on the continental rise; western Pacific Ocean north off northern Sea of Japan off Hokkaido (Yabe in Amaoka et al. 1983) and western North Pacific off southern Honshu (Crabtree et al. 1985) to northern Bering Sea (60°10’N, 179°41’W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to Cape Falcon, Oregon (Stein and Butler 1971). Benthopelagic; depth: 700–3,753 m (2,296 –12,313 ft) (min.: Smith in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016; max.: Sulak et al. 1984). 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 32, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008