Gigantactis vanhoeffeni Brauer 1902
- 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
- Gigantactinidae
- genus
- Gigantactis
- species
- Gigantactis vanhoeffeni
description
Cosmopolitan Whipnose. To 62 cm (24.4 in) TL (Kamikawa 2017). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Bertelsen et al. 1981); Bering Sea (58 ° 09 ’ N, 175 ° 36 ’ W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Mesopelagic to bathypelagic; depth: taken in open nets fished at maximum depths of 300 – 5,300 m (984 – 17,388 ft) (Bertelsen et al. 1981).
Name
- Homonyms
- Gigantactis vanhoeffeni Brauer 1902