Desmodema lorum Rosenblatt & Butler 1977

• 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; Lampriformes; Trachipteridae; Desmodema; Desmodema lorum; Milton; Moser; Nakaya; Pacific; Scripps; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5822225; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822225

Desmodema lorum Rosenblatt & Butler, 1977. Whiptail Ribbonfish. To 110 cm (43.3 in) SL (Rosenblatt and Butler 1977) or 114 cm (44.9 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Temperate waters of North Pacific Ocean; Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984); southern Kuril Islands (Parin et al. 1995); southern Oregon (44°26’N, 155°05’W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) to Peru (Nakaya et al. 2009), including Gulf of California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Epipelagic (Charter and Moser in Moser 1996) to mesopelagic (Rosenblatt and Butler 1977); depth: adults from a minimum of at least 30 to at least 1,162 m (98–3,811) (min.: Martin 2015; max: NWFSC-FRAM). 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 75, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008