Lampris megalopsis Underkoffler, Luers, Hyde, & Craig, 2018

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 74

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822221

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FFD8-FFFC-98EA-FB3EFE453556

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Lampris megalopsis Underkoffler, Luers, Hyde, & Craig, 2018
status

 

Lampris megalopsis Underkoffler, Luers, Hyde, & Craig, 2018 .

Bigeye Pacific Opah. Maximum length to at least 124 cm (48.8 in) FL (Matthew Craig, pers. comm. to M.L.) and undocumented to 183 cm (72 in) TL ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Circumglobal; at least California and Chile (John Hyde, pers. comm. to M.L.). Pelagic, oceanic; depth: surface to perhaps 736 m (2,414 ft) ( Polovina et al. 2008).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Lampriformes

Family

Lampridae

Genus

Lampris

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