Barbourisia rufa Parr 1945
- 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
- Cetomimiformes
- family
- Barbourisiidae
- genus
- Barbourisia
- species
- Barbourisia rufa
description
Red Whalefish. To 41 cm (16.1 in) TL (Melendez C. et al. 1991). Circumglobal at low latitudes; recorded as far north as Greenland (Amaoka in Okamura et al. 1995); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Amaoka in Masuda et al. 1984), Russian north-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); Emperor Seamounts; Hawai’i (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); Bering Sea (55 ° 59 ’ N, 168 ° 45 ’ W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013), and Pacific Ocean south of Amukta Pass, Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); off Washington (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to north-central California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to southern Chile (44 ° 53 ’ S, 73 ° 30 ’ W) (Meléndez C. et al. 1991). Pelagic and benthopelagic; depth: 120 – 2,000 m (394 – 6,562 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Name
- Homonyms
- Barbourisia rufa Parr 1945