Pacific footballfish
Appearance
Pacific footballfish | |
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Specimen preserved at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO 21-41) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Lophiiformes |
Family: | Himantolophidae |
Genus: | Himantolophus |
Species: | H. sagamius
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Binomial name | |
Himantolophus sagamius (S. Tanaka (I), 1918)
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The Pacific footballfish (Himantolophus sagamius) is a species of footballfish (a type of anglerfish) native to the Pacific Ocean.[1] It has a wide range, extending from the coasts of Honshu (Gulf of Sagami) and Hokkaido islands through the Kuril-Kamchatka trough, in the northwest Pacific, to the eastern Pacific from California to Peru.[2] The species is known to live in waters as deep as 3,000 feet (900 m) or 500 fathoms.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Pacific Footballfish". www.calacademy.org. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
- ^ "ITIS standard report: Himantolophus sagamius (Tanaka, 1918)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Archived from the original on 24 October 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^ "Spooky 'Finding Nemo' fish washes up on California beach". BBC News. 12 May 2021. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.