Centrobranchus nigroocellatus (Gunther 1873)
- 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
- Myctophiformes
- family
- Myctophidae
- genus
- Centrobranchus
- species
- Centrobranchus nigroocellatus
description
Roundnose Lanternfish. 5 cm (2 in) SL (Froese and Pauly 2019; note that we were unable to verify this record). Circumglobal (Hulley and Paxton in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016); off Point Conception, California (34 ° 12 ’ N, 121 ° 42.6 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) (originally identified as Centrobranchus andreae (Lütken, 1892) (Benjamin Frable); Chile (Froese and Pauly 2019; note that we were unable to verify this record). Mesopelagic (Hulley and Paxton in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016); depth: surface to 700 m (2,296 ft) (min.: Hulley and Paxton in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016; max.: Froese and Pauly 2019; note that we were unable to verify this).