Bathophilus filifer (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
- Stomiidae
- genus
- Bathophilus
- species
- Bathophilus filifer
description
To 10.4 cm (4.1 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Eastern and central tropical Pacific; Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Larvae taken as far north as off Ensenada, northern Baja California (Funes-Rodríguez et al. 2011). Depth: surface to perhaps 2,947 m (9,666 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). The deepest record comes from a “ rock dredge ” and the specimen may have been captured as the dredge was retrieved.
Name
- Homonyms
- Bathophilus filifer (Garman 1899)