Anotopterus nikparini Kukuev 1998

Anotopterus nikparini Kukuev, 1998. Daggertooth or North Pacific Daggertooth. To 146 cm (57.5 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). South of Japan to southern Bering Sea, and Gulf of Alaska, to south of Baja California (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). An Anotopterus reported from the Gulf of California (Castro-Ag...

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Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5822046
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822046
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Summary:Anotopterus nikparini Kukuev, 1998. Daggertooth or North Pacific Daggertooth. To 146 cm (57.5 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). South of Japan to southern Bering Sea, and Gulf of Alaska, to south of Baja California (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). An Anotopterus reported from the Gulf of California (Castro-Aguirre 1991) is likely this species. Primarily epipelagic and mesopelagic; depth: near surface (at night) to 2,750 m (9,022 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Includes North Pacific records of Anotopterus pharao. Also placed in the family Anotopteridae (Fricke et al. 2020). 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 63, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008