Parataeniophorus brevis Bertelsen & Marshall 1956
- 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
- Cetomimiformes
- family
- Cetomimidae
- genus
- Parataeniophorus
- species
- Parataeniophorus brevis
description
Short Tapetail. 4.6 cm (1.8 in) TL (Froese and Pauly 2019; note that we were unable to verify this record). Indo-Pacific (Fricke et al. 2020); southern California (34 ° 09.6 ’ N, 121 ° 01.8 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Epipelagic, mesopelagic, and bathypelagic; depth: 0 – 1,400 m (Mundy 2005).