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
2021
2021-10-19
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Loweina rara
(Lütken, 1892)
.
Dwarf Lanternfish
. To
5 cm
(
2 in
) SL (
Nafpaktitis
et al.
1977
). Circumglobal; northern California (
Matarese
et al.
1989
) to tropical eastern Pacific (
Wisner 1976
). Larvae as far north as Oregon (
Matarese
et al.
1989
) and as far south as well-off
Chile
(about
20°S
,
94°W
) (
Moser and Ahlstrom 1970
). Depth: surface to
1,050 m
(
3,445 ft
) (min.:
Wisner 1976
; max.:
Nafpaktitis
et al.
1977
) or perhaps to
3,290 m
(
10,791 ft
) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). The latter record is based on a midwater trawl catch and the depth of capture may have been above the maximum tow depth. Includes records of
Loweina laurae
Wisner, 1971
.