Alepisaurus ferox Lowe 1833
- 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
- Aulopiformes
- family
- Alepisauridae
- genus
- Alepisaurus
- species
- Alepisaurus ferox
description
Longnose Lancetfish. To about 231 cm (90.9 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984), and Sea of Okhotsk, to Bering Sea as far northward as 58 ° 21 ’ N, 175 ° 19 ’ W (Maslenikov et al. 2013), and Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Epipelagic to bathypelagic; depth: near surface to 1,830 m (6,004 ft); primarily oceanic but often found close to shore (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Name
- Homonyms
- Alepisaurus ferox Lowe 1833