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A Remarkable New Genus and Species of Deep-Sea Angler-Fish (Family Oneirodidae) from off Guadalupe Island, Mexico

1969; American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; Volume: 1969; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1442087

1938-5110

Theodore W. Pietsch,

Marine and fisheries research

California and Baja California, and the Gulf of California have yielded to investigators seven of the ten recognized families of the deep-sea ceratioid angler-fishes: Caulophrynidae, Centrophrynidae, Ceratiidae, Gigantactinidae, Linophrynidae, Melanocetidae, and Oneirodidae. These families are well represented by 12 genera and approximately 19 species in collections taken in the last 15 years by the R/V VELERO IV of the Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California. All of these fishes con-