Himantolophus sagamius (Tanaka 1918)
- 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
- Himantolophidae
- genus
- Himantolophus
- species
- Himantolophus sagamius
description
Pacific Footballfish. To 38 cm (15 in) SL (Klepadlo et al. 2003). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan; off Kamchatka (Kharin 2006 a); northern California (Bertelsen and Krefft 1988) to Chile (Pequeño 1997). Depth: 300 – 1,300 m (984 – 4,264 ft) (min.: Michael Schaadt, pers. comm. to M. L.; max.: Bertelsen and Krefft 1988). Reported as Himantolophus sp. in Lea (1988). Classified by some authors as a synonym of Himantolophus groenlandicus Reinhardt, 1837.
Name
- Homonyms
- Himantolophus sagamius (Tanaka 1918)