Coryphaenoides acrolepis

Description

Size: To at least 122 cm.

General: Coloration overall silvery grey to greyish-brown in young, turning to chocolate brown or blackish in some adults; fins generally light in juveniles, dark in adults. Difficult to distinguish from C. filifer when dark (see C. acrolepis-filifer complex).

Geographic Information

Published depth range: California: 600 - 2500 m.

Ocean range (global): Southern Bering Sea to central Baja.

Habitat description: Demersal.

Additional Information

Consulting taxonomist: Jeff Drazen, University of Hawai`i at Manoa.

References

Encyclopedia of Life

Tree of Life

World Register of Marine Species

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Love, M.S. (2011). Certainly more than you want to know about the fishes of the Pacific coast. Really Big Press, Santa Barbara, CA. 649 pp.

Cohen, D.M., T. Inada, T. Iwamoto, and N. Scialabba (1990). An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Cods, Hakes, Grenadiers and other Gadiform Fishes Known to Date. FAO, Rome, Italy. 442 pp.

Iwamoto, T. and D.L. Stein (1974). A Systematic Review of the Rattail Fishes (Macrouridae: Gadiformes) from Oregon and Adjacent Waters. Occasional Papers of the California A1:F979 of Sciences, 111: 1-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.15932

Hoff, G.R., D.E. Stevenson, and J.W. Orr (2015). Guide to the Gadiform Fishes of the eastern North Pacific. U.S. Department of Commerce. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-AFSC-309:68. http://dx/doi.org/10.7289/V5/TM-AFSC-309.

Love, M.S., C.W. Mecklenberg, T.A. Mecklenberg, and L.K. Thorsteinson (2005). Resource Inventory of Marine and Estuarine Fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: A Checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean Species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. U.S. Geological Survey:1-278.