Cryptopsaras couesii Gill 1883

• 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; Lophiiformes; Ceratiidae; Cryptopsaras; Cryptopsaras couesii; Yukon; Greenland; Pacific; New Zealand; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5603623; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603623

Cryptopsaras couesii Gill, 1883. Triplewart Seadevil. To 35.8 cm (14.1 in) TL (Pietsch 2009). Circumglobal, with overall latitudinal range of 63°N to 43°S (Pietsch 1986); Greenland; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan; New Zealand; Hawai’i (Pietsch 1986); British Columbia (49°29’N, 127°17’W) (Weil et al. 2015) to Peru (Pietsch 1986). Depth: 75–4,000 m (246–13,123 ft), but mostly taken at 500–1,250 m (1,640 –4,101 ft) (Pietsch 1986); reported at surface (Orlov and Tokranov 2019), but without documentation. Based on analyses of mtDNA, Bañón et al. (2019) found that Pacific and Atlantic specimens might represent cryptic species. 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 90, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008