Sternoptyx obscura Garman 1899
- 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
- Stomiiformes
- family
- Sternoptychidae
- genus
- Sternoptyx
- species
- Sternoptyx obscura
description
Dusky Hatchetfish. To 5.5 cm (2.2 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Circumglobal (Fricke et al. 2020); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984); at least Monterey Bay, central California (Burton and Lea 2019) to Peru – Chile border (Baird 1971). Depth: surface to 1,393 m (4,569 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Cruz-Acevedo et al. 2018). A record of 4,268 m (13,999 ft) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) was based on the maximum depth fished by a midwater trawl and may represent a catch shallower than the maximum depth.
Name
- Homonyms
- Sternoptyx obscura Garman 1899