Ceratoscopelus townsendi

Ceratoscopelus townsendi (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889). Dogtooth Lampfish. To about 8.5 cm (3.3 in) SL (Savinykh 1999). Circumglobal; Gulf of Alaska (59°15’N, 142°08’W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washin...

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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
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Myctophiformes
Myctophidae
Ceratoscopelus
Ceratoscopelus townsendi
Yukon
Baja
Gulf of Alaska
Milton
Moser
Agüero
Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5822102
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822102
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Summary:Ceratoscopelus townsendi (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889). Dogtooth Lampfish. To about 8.5 cm (3.3 in) SL (Savinykh 1999). Circumglobal; Gulf of Alaska (59°15’N, 142°08’W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; confirmed by Katherine Maslenikov) to southern Baja California (27°01’N, 115°15’W) (De La Cruz-Agüero and Galván-Magaña 1992) and Chile (Pequeño 1989). Larvae have been taken south of Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Moser et al. 1993). Depth: surface to 800 m (2,625 ft) (Wisner 1976), reported but not confirmed to 923 m (3,028 ft) (Lauth 1999). 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 67, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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