Thaumatichthys axeli (Bruun 1953)
- 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
- Lophiiformes
- family
- Thaumatichthyidae
- genus
- Thaumatichthys
- species
- Thaumatichthys axeli
description
To 36.5 cm (14.4 in) SL. Two known specimens: one from Patton escarpment, well off southern California; the other from 9 ° 23 ’ N, 87 ° 32 ’ W. Both specimens from deep water; the southern California fish was taken in an otter trawl at 3,578 – 3,671 m (11,736 – 12,041 ft), the second fish in a herring otter trawl at 3,570 m (11,710 ft). All in Bertelsen and Struhsaker (1977).
Name
- Homonyms
- Thaumatichthys axeli (Bruun 1953)