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Kroyer's deep sea angler fish
Ceratias holboelli Krøyer, 1845
Also calledBiwaanko (jpn) · Matronica (pol) · Noah (fra) · Sædjöfull (isl) · holbøll sjødjevel (nno) · holbølls sjødjevel (nob) · kroyerjeva globokomorska trnkarica (slv) · pêcheur à deux massettes (fra) · Северный (гренландский глубоководный) удильщик (rus) · ビワアンコウ (jpn) · 深海鮟鱇 (zho) · 霍氏角鮟鱇 (zho) · holbøllsjødjevel (nob) · holbøllsjødjevel (nno)
First described in: Krøyer, H. N. (1845). Ichthyologiske Bidrag. 10. Ceratias Holbölli Kr. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift (Kjøbenhavn) (n. s.).</em> v. 1: 639-649. [Continuation of ref. 2689.].
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Northern Giant Seadevil or Northern Seadevil. To at least 85.5 cm (33.7 in) SL (Theodore Pietsch). A maximum size of 152.4 cm (60 in) TL in Kamikawa (2017) is a misprint. Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan; Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and off British Columbia and central California; Hawai’i (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Larvae reported from off Punta Eugenia, southern Baja California (Funes-Rodríguez et al. 2011). Depth: 120 – 3,400 m (394 – 11,154 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); also reported at surface (Porteiro et al. 2017), but without documentation.
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5214853.