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Bathylagoides nigrigenys

Description

Bathylagoides nigrigenys (Parr 1931).

To 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SL (Kobyliansky 1985). Equatorial and tropical waters of Indo-Pacific (Kobyliansky 1985); southern California (32°45’N, 118°54’W) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California. Depth: surface (night light, Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 91 to perhaps 1,095 m (300–3,593 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Adults usually at depths of 200–300 m (Kobyliansky 1985).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Kobyliansky, S. G. (1985) Material for the revision of the genus Bathylagus Gunther (Bathylagidae): the group of " light " deepsea smelts. Journal of Ichthyology, 25, 1 - 17.
  • Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.