Argyropelecus aculeatus Valenciennes 1850
- 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
- Argyropelecus
- species
- Argyropelecus aculeatus
description
Lovely Hatchetfish. To 8.3 cm (3.3 in) SL (Collette and Klein-MacPhee 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to northern Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); central California (34 ° 53.6 ’ N, 121 ° 30.2 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to at least Ecuador (01 ° 59 ’ N, 84 ° 15 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Depth: 160 – 2,250 m (548 – 7,380 ft) (min.: Lima et al. 2011; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). A record of 100 m in Froese and Pauly (2019), attributed to Shinohara et al. (1996), appears to be in error as Shinohara et al. lists 785 m as the shallowest catch. Deeper records (e. g., 4,100 m (13,448 ft) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); 5,178 m (16,984 ft) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California )) may represent fish caught by trawls based on the maximum depth fished and may represent a catch shallower than the maximum depth.