Species Gigantactis meadi Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Gigantactis meadi 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 [33, figs. 4B, 18, 20, 23, 32-33].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 52572, Southwestern Indian Ocean, 0 to 350 m. [34°14'S, 64°56'E].
  Paratype(s) ISH 415-1976; ISH 571-1976; ISH 883-1971; ISH 965-1971; ISH 1004-1971; ISH 1465-1971; LACM 11242-12; SAMA 27811; USNM 208032; ZMUC P291987 (ex ISH 1004-1971).

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

South of TAS (43°S, 146°E); temperate, circumglobal (Southern Ocean).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10)

Ecological Descriptors

Bathypelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range: 850-1183 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 [24]

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. [460]

Stewart, A.L. & Pietsch, T.W. 1998. The ceratioid anglerfishes (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei) of New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28(1): 1-37 [26]

 

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)