Barathronus pacificus Nielson & Eagle 1974
- 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
- Ophidiiformes
- family
- Aphyonidae
- genus
- Barathronus
- species
- Barathronus pacificus
description
To 12.8 cm (5 in) SL (Nielsen and Eagle 1974). North and southeast Atlantic, southwest and northeast Pacific Ocean (Fricke et al. 2020); between Australia and New Zealand (Okiyama and Kato 1997); Oregon to northern California (Matarese et al. 1989). Benthopelagic (Nielsen and Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999); depth: 3,334 – 3,860 m (10,938 – 12,664 ft) (min.: Nielsen and Eagle 1974; max.: Pearcy et al. 1982). We follow Møller et al. (2016) and place this species (previously in the family Aphyonidae) in the Bythitidae.