Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
| 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
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
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.
Copyright: © 2024 by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Fig. 1.
Gigantactis paresca, holotype, BPBM 42149, 65.7 mm. Scale bar = 1 cm.
Fig. 2.
Esca of Gigantactis paresca, holotype. Scale bar = 1 mm.
Contributor Notes
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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