Species Gigantactis kreffti Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Gigantactis kreffti Bertelsen, E., Pietsch, T.W. & Lavenberg, R.J. 1981. Ceratioid anglerfishes of the family Gigantactinidae: morphology, systematics and distribution. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Contributions in Science 332: 1-74 figs 1-69 [29, figs. 4D, 27-29].

  Type data:

   Holotype ISH 1099-1971, Southeastern Atlantic, 0-2000 m. [39°19'S, 3°15'W].
  Paratype(s) ISH 1262-1971; ZIUT 52706; ZMUC P921983 (ex ISH 3236-1971).

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

South of TAS (43°S, 146°E); temperate, (disjunct, South Africa, Japan).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10)

Ecological Descriptors

Bathypelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range: 1000-2000 m.

 

General References

Anderson, M.E. & Leslie, R.W. 2001. Review of the deep-sea anglerfishes (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei) of southern Africa. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute, Grahamstown 70: 1-32 [23]

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. [458]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	LOPHIIFORMES	22-Sep-2011	ADDED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)