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View Mode View All Pictures Species Icosteus aenigmaticus Lockington    Icosteus aenigmaticus was originally described as Icosteus aenigmaticus by Lockington in 1880. It belongs to the family Icosteidae. It is commonly known as Ragfish but has many other common names such as ragfish in USA (contiguous states), Ragfish in British Columbia, Fan-tailed rag-fish in Canada, Ragfish in Canada. more common names It is found in Salt water.   Species Species   Higher Taxa Higher Taxa   Original Original   Subspecies Subspecies   Current Current   General General   Name History Name History   Related Pages Related Pages   Species of this Genus Species of this Genus   Species   aenigmaticus AuthorWI   Lockington [W. N.] AuthorNI   Lockington Qualification   --- Year   1880 Status   Valid Class   Osteichthyes Osteichthyes Order   Icosteiformes Icosteiformes Family   Icosteidae Subfamily   --- --- Genus   Icosteus Subgenus   --- Class   Osteichthyes Order   Icosteiformes Family   Icosteidae Genus   Icosteus Original Name   Icosteus         Taxon Name   aenigmaticus Original Combination   Icosteus aenigmaticus Original Genus   Icosteus Original Genus Species   Icosteus aenigmaticus OriginalSubGenus   Icosteus Original Author   Lockington Original AuthorWI   Lockington [W. N.] Original Qualification   --- Original Year   1880 Original Family   Icosteidae Original SubFamily   --- Original Level   species Type Locality   San Francisco market, California, U.S.A. Types   Syntypes: CAS (2), lost in 1906. Primary Code   --- Journal   Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. Citation   v. 3 (no. 123) Page   63 SubSpecies AuthorWI --- Qualification SS --- Current Subspecies AuthorWI --- Current Genus Species Icosteus aenigmaticus Current Species   aenigmaticus Current Genus Icosteus Current AuthorWI Lockington [W. N.] Current AuthorNI   Lockington Current Year   1880 Current Family Icosteidae Current Subfamily --- --- Habitat Marine.         Water Salt water Habitat Notes Found offshore. Feeds on fishes and squids. Eaten by sperm whales. Spawns in the summer and winter (Ref. 6885). A 136 cm SL female probably produces about 435, 000 light amber coloured eggs (Ref. 6885). Depth Range From 18 to 732 meters.     Current Summary   Valid as Icosteus aenigmaticus  Lockington 1880. Icosteidae.   Name History   •Valid as Icosteus aenigmaticus Lockington 1880 -- (Nakaya in Amaoka et al. 1983:149, 211 [ref. 8379], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:283 [ref. 9277], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:309 [ref. 6441], Matarese et al. 1989:538 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:175 [ref. 14674], Kubota & Tsukada 1996:56 [ref. 24966], Nakabo 2000:1120 [ref. 25182], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:39 [ref. 25650], Shinohara et al. 2001:330 [ref. 25995], Allen 2001:1 [ref. 26950], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:796 [ref. 25968], Nakabo 2002:1120 [ref. 26193], Okamoto et al. 2002:98 [ref. 26529], Mecklenburg 2003:2 [ref. 27304], Fedorov et al. 2003:130 [ref. 27579], Parin 2003:S24 [ref. 28536], Nelson et al. 2004:167 [ref. 27807], Page et al. 2013:172 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:471 [ref. 33547], Pietsch & Orr 2015:65 [ref. 34694], Kells et al. 2016:300 [ref. 35888], Burton & Lea 2019:90 [ref. 37205]). Common Names  Common Names Picture  Picture Places  Places Hierarchy  Hierarchy Pictures  Pictures First Publication  First Publication Collections Species Links  Species Links Name Combinations  Name Combinations References  References No data to paginate Page size: 25 50 100 Drag a column header here to group by that column Species   Genus Species   Authorship   Status   No data to display Begins with Contains Doesn't contain Ends with Equals Doesn't equal Is less than Is less than or equal to Is greater than Is greater than or equal to Like ('%', '_') No data to paginate Page size: 25 50 100 Create Filter   Loading…