Coryphaenoides leptolepis

Description

General: Light to bright white with deeper-living specimens gray. Sloped snout. Very thin tapering tail which is usually reddish-brown, but all white specimens have been occasionally observed. In darker specimens, pre-opercular lower lobe is prominent (see image 3). The orbital ring is mostly black all the way around. Nostrils dark, relatively long chin barbel. Outer pelvic ray long, first dorsal ray often black.

Geographic Information

Published depth range: California: 2,000 - 3,860 m.

Habitat description: Demersal.

Ocean range (global): Gulf of Alaska to southern Baja California.

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

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

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.