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Pacific pomfret
Brama japonica Hilgendorf, 1878
Also calledBrama japonska (pol) · Castagnole du Pacifique (fra) · Shimagatsuo (jpn) · Voikala (fin) · Xaputa espellada (glg) · castagnole mince (fra) · pražma japonská (ces) · tristón del Pacífico (spa) · Тихоокеанский морской лещ (rus) · Японский морской лещ (rus) · シマガツオ (jpn) · 日本烏魴 (zho) · 深海三角仔 (zho) · 黑皮刀 (zho)
First described in: Hilgendorf, F. M. (1878). Über das Vorkommen einer Brama-Art und einer neuen Fischgattung Centropholis aus der Nachbarschaft des Genus Brama in den japanischen Meeren. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1878.</em> : 1-2.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Pacific Pomfret or Small-scaled Pomfret. To 61.4 cm (24.2 in) FL (Pearcy and Fisher 1993); also reported to 122 cm (4 ft) (Jordan and Evermann 1896 b) but without documentation. Southern Sea of Japan, and off southern coast of Korean Peninsula (Lindberg and Krasyukova 1969), to Pacific Ocean south of Aleutian Islands, and southern Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Chile (Robertson and Allen 2002); apparently absent from tropics (Robertson and Allen 2002). Oceanic, primarily epipelagic; depth: surface to 620 m (2,034 ft) (min.: Mead 1972; max.: Moser and Mundy in Moser 1996).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5208088.