Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-10-19
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Scopelosaurus harryi
(Mead, 1953)
.
Scaly Paperbone or
Scaly Waryfish
. To
32 cm
(
12.6 in
) SL (Fujii in
Masuda
et al.
1984
). Northern
Japan
(
Balanov
et al.
2009
), Sea of Okhotsk (Fujii in
Masuda
et al.
1984
), Pacific Ocean north of
Japan
, Bering Sea (
Bertelsen
et al.
1976
), British Columbia (as far north as
53°25’N
,
133°03’W
) (
Milkova
et al.
2016
) to southern Baja California (
20°N
) (
Sazonov 1998
). Primarily mesopelagic; depth:
0– 1,310 m
(
4,298 ft
) (min.:
Orlov and Tokranov 2019
; max.: Mecklenburg
et al.
2002). A record of
4,500 m
(
14,760 ft
) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) was based on the maximum depth fished by a midwater trawl and may represent a catch shallower than the maximum depth