Cubiceps capensis (Smith 1845)
- 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
- Perciformes
- family
- Nomeidae
- genus
- Cubiceps
- species
- Cubiceps capensis
description
Cape Cigarfish or Cape Fathead. To 100 cm (39.3 in) TL (Agafonova 1994). Circumglobal (Haedrich in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016); one specimen taken 145 km (90 mi) west-southwest of Morro Bay, central California (35 ° 08 ’ N, 122 ° 24 ’ W) (McCosker et al. 2004). Epipelagic and mesopelagic (Mundy 2005); depth: to more than 800 m (2,624 ft) (Roberts et al. 2015).
Name
- Homonyms
- Cubiceps capensis (Smith 1845)