Bathophilus filifer

Bathophilus filifer (Garman, 1899).

To 10.4 cm (4.1 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Eastern and central tropical Pacific; Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Larvae taken as far north as off Ensenada, northern Baja California (Funes-Rodríguez et al. 2011). Depth: surface to perhaps 2,947 m (9,666 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). The deepest record comes from a “rock dredge” and the specimen may have been captured as the dredge was retrieved.