Dolichopteryx parini Kobyliansky & Fedorov 2001
- 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
- Opisthoproctidae
- genus
- Dolichopteryx
- species
- Dolichopteryx parini
description
Winged Spookfish. To 21.7 cm (8.5 in) SL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Possibly throughout the North Pacific; recorded from Pacific off Honshu, Japan and Sea of Okhotsk to southern Bering Sea to southern British Columbia (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Mesopelagic; depth: about 200 – 2,000 m (656 – 6,560 ft), possibly shallower (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max. Orlov and Tokranov 2019). A “ Dolichopteryx parini ” from central California (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) is a Bathylychnops exilis Cohen 1958 (Katherine Maslenikov).