Rondeletia loricata Abe & Hotta 1963
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Stephanoberyciformes
- family
- Rondeletiidae
- genus
- Rondeletia
- species
- Rondeletia loricata
description
Armored Redmouth Whalefish or Redmouth Whalefish. To 15 cm (6 in) TL (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Uyeno in Masuda et al. 1984) and Sea of Okhotsk (44 ° 20 ’ N, 148 ° 37 ’ E) (Kharin 2006 b); Washington (47 ° 12 ’ N) (Lauth 2001) to Chile (27 ° 04 ’ S, 71 ° 45 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and Islas Galápagos (1 ° 46 ’ S, 89 ° 56 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Mesopelagic (Paxton in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016); depth: 100 – 3,500 m (328 – 11,480 ft) (min.: Clarke and Wagner 1976; max.: Kamikawa 2017); juveniles in shallower part of depth range (Kotlyar 1996).
Name
- Homonyms
- Rondeletia loricata Abe & Hotta 1963