Biology:Gigantactis elsmani

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Gigantactis elsmani
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Lophiiformes
Family: Gigantactinidae
Genus: Gigantactis
Species:
G. elsmani
Binomial name
Gigantactis elsmani
Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981

Lua error in Module:Mapframe at line 384: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'lat_d' (a nil value). Gigantactis elsmani (common name Elsman's whipnose) is a species of fish in the whipnose angler (Gigantactinidae) family, first described in 1981 by Erik Bertelsen, Theodore Wells Pietsch III and Robert J. Lavenberg.[2][3] It has five dorsal soft rays and four to five anal soft rays.[4]

It is a marine oceanic fish found in the south Atlantic and south Pacific oceans and hence in the territorial waters of islands in those oceans, at depths of 0 metres to 3,000 metres.[1] In Australia it has been found in waters off the coasts of Queensland and New South Wales.[2]

References

Further reading

  •  , Wikidata Q114055250
  •  , Wikidata Q54554077
  • Stewart, A.L. and Pietsch, T.W. 2015. Family Gigantactinidae. In: Roberts, C., Stewart, A.L. and Struthers, C.D. (eds), The Fishes of New Zealand, pp. 932–936. Te Papa Press.

Wikidata ☰ Q1947878 entry