Lampris megalopsis Underkoffler, Luers, Hyde, & Craig 2018
- 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
- Lampriformes
- family
- Lampridae
- genus
- Lampris
- species
- Lampris megalopsis
description
Bigeye Pacific Opah. Maximum length to at least 124 cm (48.8 in) FL (Matthew Craig, pers. comm. to M. L.) and undocumented to 183 cm (72 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Circumglobal; at least California and Chile (John Hyde, pers. comm. to M. L.). Pelagic, oceanic; depth: surface to perhaps 736 m (2,414 ft) (Polovina et al. 2008).