Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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Zootaxa
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Triphoturus mexicanus
(Gilbert, 1890)
.
Mexican Lampfish
. To
9 cm
(
3.5 in
) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). British Columbia (
Gillespie 1993
) to off southern
Mexico
(
Rodríguez-Graña
et al.
2004
), including Gulf of California (
De La Cruz-Agüero and Galván-Magaña 1992
). Depth: surface to perhaps
2,882 m
(
9,453 ft
) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Maximum depth poorly known, most captures appear to be in
1,000 m
(
3,280 ft
) or less. Deeper records, such as
4,100 m
(
13,448 ft
) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), are based on the maximum depth fished by a midwater trawl and may represent a catch shallower than the maximum depth.
Triphoturus oculeus
(Garman 1899)
has been considered to be synonymous with
Triphoturus mexicanus
Gilbert, 1890
. However, on the basis of both DNA and larvae characters Rodríquez-Graña
et al.
(2004) separated the two species.
Triphoturus oculeus
is found from
13°N
to
35°S
.