Benthosema pterotum

* Benthosema pterotum (Alcock, 1890). To 5.5 cm (2.2 in) SL. Indo-Pacific (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); western Pacific Ocean north to central Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002). While adults have not been collected within our range, larvae identified as this species have been taken as far north as Isla de Ce...

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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
Myctophiformes
Myctophidae
Benthosema
Benthosema pterotum
Yukon
Baja
Pacific
Alcock
Milton
Moser
Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5822092
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822092
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Summary:* Benthosema pterotum (Alcock, 1890). To 5.5 cm (2.2 in) SL. Indo-Pacific (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); western Pacific Ocean north to central Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002). While adults have not been collected within our range, larvae identified as this species have been taken as far north as Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Moser et al. 1994). Mesopelagic; depth: 10–300 m (33–984 ft) (Fricke et al. 2019). 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 66, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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