Poromitra crassiceps

Crested bigscale
Model of a crested bigfish published in the 1911 edition of Prince Albert of Monoco's "Résultats des campagnes scientifiques"
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Stephanoberyciformes
Family: Melamphaidae
Genus: Poromitra
Species: P. crassiceps
Binomial name
Poromitra crassiceps
Günther, 1878

Poromitra crassiceps, commonly called the crested bigscale (also called large-headed midnight fish, crested melamphid, or one-horned melamphaid[2]) is a species of deep sea fish in the ridgehead family.

While the fish with the common name crested bigscale in Alaskan waters had formerly been identified as P. crassiceps, it is now believed that Alaskan crested bigscales are actually Poromitra curilensis, and that P. crassiceps is restricted to the Atlantic ocean.[3] As a result of this mis-identification, P. crassiceps is occasionally identified as the largest ridgehead - while specimens of P. curilensis as large as 18 cm SL[4][5] have been found, the maximum length of P. crassiceps is 14.8 cm SL.[6]

References

  1. ↑ IUCN 2013. [IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2 www.iucnredlist.org]. Downloaded on 17 February 2014.
  2. ↑ Fishbase - Common names of Poromitra crassiceps - Accessed 22 May 2012
  3. ↑ M.S. Yang (1993) - Food habits of the commercially important groundfishes in the Gulf of Alaska in 1990. US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memorand MMFS-AFSC-22
  4. ↑ Parin, Nikolay V.; Ebeling, Alfred W. (February 1980). "A new Western Pacific Poromitra (Pisces: Melamphaidae)". Copeia (1): 87–93. JSTOR 1444136. doi:10.2307/1444136.
  5. ↑ Kotlyar, A.N. (September 2008). "Revision of the genus Poromitra (Melamphaidae): Part 2. New species of the group P. crassiceps". Journal of Ichthyology. 48 (8): 553–564. doi:10.1134/S0032945208080018.
  6. ↑ Childress, J.J.; Taylor, S.M.; Caillet, G.M.; Price, M.H. (December 1980). "Patterns of growth, energy utilization and reproduction in some meso- and bathypelagic fishes off Southern California" (PDF). Marine Biology. 61 (1): 27–40. doi:10.1007/BF00410339.


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