Species Diceratias trilobus Balushkin & Fedorov, 1986

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• Diceratias trilobus Balushkin, A.V. & Fedorov, V.V. 1986. A new species of diceratiid deepsea anglerfish, Diceratias trilobus sp. n. (Fam. Diceratiidae, Ceratioidei) from the coast of Japan. Voprosy Ikhtiologii 26(5): 855-856 [[In Russian. English translation in Journal of Ichthyology 1987, v. 27 (no. 1):136-138.]] [855].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZISP 47426, off Honshu, Japan, 1211-1216 m. [38°20.7'N, 142°31.9'E].

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Great Australian Bight, SA (130°45 E) to off Port Hedland, WA (20°S, 118°51'E); tropical, temperate, east-Indo-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8)

Ecological Descriptors

Bathypelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range: 490-996 m.

 

General References

Pietsch, T.W. 2009. Oceanic Anglerfishes. Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press pp. i-xii + 1-557. [356]

Pietsch, T.W., Balushkin, A.V. & Fedorov, V.V. 2006. New records of the rare deep-sea anglerfsih Diceratias trilobus Balushkin and Fedorov (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei: Diceratiidae) from the western Pacific and eastern Indian oceans. Journal of Ichthyology 46(1): S97-S100 [S97]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	LOPHIIFORMES	15-Sep-2011	ADDED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)