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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2021-10-19
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Myctophum nitidulum
Garman, 1899
.
Pearly Lanternfish
. To
10.5 cm
(
4.1 in
) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to
Japan
(Nakabo in
Nakabo 2002
) and east of Kuril Islands (
Savinykh
et al.
2004
); off Brookings, Oregon (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to
Chile
(
Pequeño 1989
). Mesopelagic (Hulley and Paxton in
Carpenter and De Angelis 2016
); depth: surface to
1,537 m
(
5,041 ft
) (
Orlov and Tokranov 2019
), and perhaps to
4,268 ft
(
13,999 ft
) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). The latter record is based on a midwater trawl catch and the depth of capture may have been above the maximum tow depth