Regalecus russelii (Cuvier, 1816)

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 : 75

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818923
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FFDB-FFFF-98EA-FAE5FB0F35C4
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Regalecus russelii (Cuvier, 1816)
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Regalecus russelii (Cuvier, 1816) View in CoL .

Oarfish. To 7–8 m (23–26 ft) ( Roberts 2012). Western Pacific Ocean off Japan (Hiyashi in Nakabo 2002); Surf (34°41’N, 120°36’W), California (Richard Feeney, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Panama ( Roberts 2012). Primarily epipelagic and mesopelagic ( Roberts 2012). We follow Roberts (2012) and separate this species from R. glesne Ascanius, 1772 .Also spelled Regalecus russellii by some authorities ( Fricke et al. 2020).