Regalecus russelii (Cuvier 1816)
- 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
- Lampriformes
- family
- Regalecidae
- genus
- Regalecus
- species
- Regalecus russelii
description
Oarfish. To 7 – 8 m (23 – 26 ft) (Roberts 2012). Western Pacific Ocean off Japan (Hiyashi in Nakabo 2002); Surf (34 ° 41 ’ N, 120 ° 36 ’ W), California (Richard Feeney, pers. comm. to M. L.) to Panama (Roberts 2012). Primarily epipelagic and mesopelagic (Roberts 2012). We follow Roberts (2012) and separate this species from R. glesne Ascanius, 1772. Also spelled Regalecus russellii by some authorities (Fricke et al. 2020).
Name
- Homonyms
- Regalecus russelii (Cuvier 1816)