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| Gigantactis paresca Rickle, 2024 |
Abstract
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.
Gigantactis paresca sp. nov.
Samantha Z. Rickle. 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. Ichthyology & Herpetology. 112(2); 153-155. DOI: doi.org/10.1643/i2023056 (17 May 2024)
https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/soestwp/announce/news/new-deep-sea-anglerfish-top-10-2024/
