Microlophichthys microlophus (Regan 1925)
- 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
- Lophiiformes
- family
- Oneirodidae
- genus
- Microlophichthys
- species
- Microlophichthys microlophus
description
To 11.3 cm (4.4 in) SL (Poulsen 2019). Circumglobal; well off southern California (32 ° 00 ’ N, 136 ° 12 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: taken as deep as 2,200 m (7,216 ft) or more (Pietsch 2009), and perhaps to 4,000 m (13,123 ft) (Moore et al. 2003).