Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco 1833
- 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
- Gempylidae
- genus
- Ruvettus
- species
- Ruvettus pretiosus
description
Oilfish. To 305 cm (10 ft) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002), and southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); well off Bodega Bay (38 ° 15 ’ N, 123 ° 30 ’ W), northern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to southern Baja California and Costa Rica (Robertson and Allen 2015) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Oceanic benthopelagic; depth: 22 – 1,160 m (72 – 3,806 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Pakhorukov 1999).
Name
- Homonyms
- Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco 1833