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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 17 May 2024

A New Species of the Anglerfish Genus Gigantactis (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei) from the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Eastern North Pacific Ocean, an Ecosystem Threatened by Deep-Sea Mining

Page Range: 153 – 155
DOI: 10.1643/i2023056
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A new species of Gigantactis is described from a single female collected from the eastern North Pacific. As with others of this genus, this species is distinguished by its unique luring apparatus, most obviously through the presence of a relatively short illicium, bearing a secondary escal-like appendage.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.

Gigantactis paresca, holotype, BPBM 42149, 65.7 mm. Scale bar = 1 cm.


Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.

Esca of Gigantactis paresca, holotype. Scale bar = 1 mm.


Contributor Notes

 Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Department of Ichthyology, 1525 Bernice St., Honolulu, Hawaii 96817; Email: szrickle00@gmail.com

Associate Editor: M. P. Davis

Received: 24 Jul 2023
Accepted: 09 Mar 2024
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