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Dolichopteryx longipes

Description

Dolichopteryx longipes (Vaillant, 1888).

Brownsnout Spookfish. To 18 cm (7.1 in) SL (Berry and Perkins 1966). Possibly circumglobal, North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (Fricke et al. 2020); central California (36°57’N, 122°13’W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Pelagic; depth: 152–2,160 m (500–7,085 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Prokofiev (2020) believes this species is limited to the Atlantic Ocean.

Notes

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 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Berry, F. H. & Perkins, H. C. (1966) Survey of pelagic fishes of the California Current area. Fishery Bulletin, 65, 625 - 682.
  • Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).
  • Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
  • Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
  • Prokofiev, A. M. (2020) Revision of the generic classification of " long-bodied " opisthoproctids (Opisthoproctidae) with a description of new taxa and new finds. Journal of Ichthyology, 60, 689 - 715. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 0032945220050094