Alepocephalus tenebrosus Gilbert 1892

Alepocephalus tenebrosus Gilbert, 1892. California Slickhead. To 61 cm (24 in) TL (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). Eastern Gulf of Alaska (59°33’N, 144°15’W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to southern Baja California (23°12.6’N) (Cruz-Acevedo et al. 2018); central America (Robertson et al. 2017); Chile (Ambros...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Osmeriformes
Alepocephalidae
Alepocephalus
Alepocephalus tenebrosus
Yukon
Baja
Bering Sea
Gulf of Alaska
Milton
Moser
Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5601444
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5601444
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Summary:Alepocephalus tenebrosus Gilbert, 1892. California Slickhead. To 61 cm (24 in) TL (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). Eastern Gulf of Alaska (59°33’N, 144°15’W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to southern Baja California (23°12.6’N) (Cruz-Acevedo et al. 2018); central America (Robertson et al. 2017); Chile (Ambrose in Moser 1996). Reports from eastern Bering Sea not verifiable (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthopelagic; depth: 115–2,287 m (377– 7,501 ft) (min.: Morera et al. 20019; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Mecklenburg et al. (2002) note that the depth range of 46– 5,486 m (150–18,000 ft) given by Fitch and Lavenberg (1968) may apply to the family as a whole and not necessarily to A. tenebrosus. 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 48, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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