Asquamiceps caeruleus Markle 1980
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Osmeriformes
- family
- Alepocephalidae
- genus
- Asquamiceps
- species
- Asquamiceps caeruleus
description
To 33.7 cm (13.3 in) SL (Markle 1980). Circumglobal (Markle 1980); Gulf of Alaska (57 ° 50 ’ N, 148 ° 24 ’ W) (Stevenson et al. 2009); off Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Mesopelagic; depth: to perhaps 2,740 m (8,987 ft) (Markle 1980). Perhaps a synonym of Asquamiceps pacificus Parr, 1954; provisionally as A. caeruleus (Stevenson et al. 2009).
Name
- Homonyms
- Asquamiceps caeruleus Markle 1980