Spectrunculus grandis

• 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; Ophidiiformes; Ophidiidae; Spectrunculus; Spectrunculus grandis; Yukon; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Russian North; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5822374; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822374

Spectrunculus grandis (Günther, 1877). Giant Cusk-eel. To 138 cm (54.3 in) TL (Abe and Hiramoto 1984). Circumglobal (Nielsen and Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Machida et al. 1987), and Russian north-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); northern Gulf of Alaska to central California (34°50’N, 123°00’W) (Priede et al. 2019), and to northern Chile (23°29’S) (Kong et al. 1988), including Gulf of California. Benthopelagic at bathyal and abyssal depths (Nielsen and Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999); depth: voucher specimens from depths of about 800–4,332 m (2,625 –14,209 ft) (min.: Nielsen and Hureau 1980; max.: Linley et al. 2017), and photographs of individuals just above the bottom as deep as 6,273 m (20,580 ft) (Machida et al. 1987). 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 84, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008