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
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Malacosteus niger
Ayres, 1848
.
Spotlight Loosejaw
or Shortnose Loosejaw. To
24 cm
(
9.4 in
) SL (Mecklenburg
et al.
2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to
Japan
(Fujii in
Masuda
et al.
1984
); western Bering Sea northeast of Commander Islands (
Balanov and Fedorov 1996
); British Columbia (
Gillespie 1993
) to
Chile
(
Pequeño 1989
). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: surface to
3,886 m
(
12,824 ft
) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Machida in
Okamura and Kitajima 1984
).