Cataetyx rubrirostris Gilbert, 1890

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 84

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scientific name	Cataetyx rubrirostris Gilbert, 1890
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Rubynose Brotula . To 15.7 cm (6.2 in) TL ( Kong et al. 1988). If the South American form is not this species, the maximum length is 13 cm (5.2 in) TL ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia (51°25’N, 130°46’W) ( Hanke et al. 2015) to central Baja California (28°48’N) ( Cruz-Acevedo et al. 2018) and Gulf of California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); Punta Coles, Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998) to central Chile (Sielfeld and Vargas 1996). Specimens from South America may be this or an undescribed species (Nielsen and Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999). Juveniles mesopelagic, larger individuals benthic at 212–3,824 m (695–12,543 ft) (min. Keller et al. 2006b; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).

References

Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.

Cruz-Acevedo, E., Tolimieri, N. & Aguirre-Villasenor, H. (2018) Deep-sea fish assemblages (300 - 2100 m) in the eastern Pacific off northern Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 592, 225 - 242. https: // doi. org / 10.3354 / meps 12502

Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

Hanke, G., Gillespie, G., Fong, K., Boutillier, J., Nielsen, J., Moller, P., Bedard, J. & J. Riley. (2015) New records of seven cusk-eels (Ophidiidae) and brotulas (Bythitidae) in coastal waters of British Columbia, Canada. Northwestern Naturalist, 96, 71 - 80. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / nwn 14 - 17.1

Keller, A. A., Horness, B. H., Tuttle, V. J., Wallace, J. R., Simon, V. H., Fruh, E. L., Bosley, K. L. & Kamikawa, D. J. (2006 b) The 2002 U. S. West Coast upper continental slope trawl survey of groundfish resources. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS-NWFSC- 75.

Kong, I., Melendez, C. R. & Henriquez, A. G. (1988) Los peces ophidiiformes de aguas profundas entre Arica (18 ° 19 ' S) e Isla Mocha (38 ° 30 ' S). Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 7, 1 - 15.

Nielsen, J. G., Cohen, D. M., Markle, D. F. & Robins, C. R. (1999) FAO species catalogue. Volume 18. Ophidiiform fishes of the world (Order Ophidiiformes). FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125. FAO, Rome.