A checklist of the deep sea fishes of the Levant Sea, Mediterranean Sea Author Goren, Menachem Author Galil, Bella S. text Zootaxa 2015 3994 4 507 530 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.4.2 8fe4fa70-d7bb-4540-950a-af769d8cb7d6 1175-5326 244394 97DE8F58-A2F7-485E-B994-B88700449E31 Lepidopus caudatus (Euphrasen, 1788) Trichiurus caudatus Euphrasen, 1788: 52 , Pl. 9 (fig. 2) Type locality: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa . Lepidopus caudatus , Ben-Tuvia, 1971 : 20 . Distribution. Circumglobal; depth range 100–600 m , and from 333–620 m in the eastern Ionian Sea.