A checklist of the deep sea fishes of the Levant Sea, Mediterranean Sea
Author
Goren, Menachem
Author
Galil, Bella S.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3994
4
507
530
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3994.4.2
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1175-5326
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Cyclothone pygmaea
Jespersen & Tåning, 1926
Cyclothone microdon pygmaea
Jespersen & Tåning, 1926
: 7
, 54, figs. 5,6,7.
Type
locality: Mediterranean Sea.
Cyclothone pygmaea
,
Galil & Goren, 1994
: 50
;
Golani, 1994
: 35
;
Goren & Galil, 1997
: 201
, 2002: 151.
Distribution.
A Mediterranean endemic, depth range
500–1000 m
. In the Levant, the maximum known depth is
1400 m
(
Galil & Goren, 1994
). Collected in the epi- and mesopelagial along the western margin of the Levant (
Jespersen & Tåning, 1926
).