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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Scopeloberyx robustus
(Günther, 1887)
.
Longjaw Bigscale
. To
22 cm
(
8.7 in
) SL (
Porteiro
et al.
2017
). Circumglobal (
Fricke
et al.
2020
); western Pacific Ocean north to
Japan
(Fujii in
Masuda
et al.
1984
), Kuril Islands (
Savinykh and Tuponogov 2004
), and Sea of Okhotsk across subarctic North Pacific to
Chile
(
Pequeño 1989
). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth:
500–4,500 m
(
1,640
–14,760
ft
) (min.: Kamikawa 2016; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); juveniles shallower, as shallow as
190 m
(
623 ft
) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). The deepest record was based on the maximum depth fished by a bottom trawl and may represent a catch shallower than the maximum depth.