Coryphaenoides pectoralis

• 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; Gadiformes; Macrouridae; Coryphaenoides; Coryphaenoides pectoralis; Yukon; Baja; Bering Sea; Okhotsk; Milton; Scripps; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5822257; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822257

Coryphaenoides pectoralis (Gilbert, 1892). Giant Grenadier or Small-eyed Rattail. To 220 cm (86.6 in) TL (Orlov and Tokranov 2008). Sea of Okhotsk (Tuponogov 1997), south along Kuril Islands (Tomio Iwamoto, pers. comm. to M.L.), and northern Honshu, Japan to Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to northern Baja California (Iwamoto in Cohen et al. 1990), including Isla Guadalupe (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Also reported from Falkland Islands, south Atlantic (Tomio Iwamoto, pers. comm. to M.L.). Adults benthopelagic, young fish bathypelagic (Iwamoto and Stein 1974); depth: 140–3,500 m (459–11,480 ft) (min.: Iwamoto in Cohen et al. 1990; max: Kamikawa 2017). Also recently as Albatrossia pectoralis (Gilbert, 1892) (Fricke et al. 2020), we follow Gaither et al. (2016) in using C. pectoralis. 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 77, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008