Dolichopteryx longipes (Vaillant 1888)
- 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
- Osmeriformes
- family
- Opisthoproctidae
- genus
- Dolichopteryx
- species
- Dolichopteryx longipes
description
Brownsnout Spookfish. To 18 cm (7.1 in) SL (Berry and Perkins 1966). Possibly circumglobal, North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (Fricke et al. 2020); central California (36 ° 57 ’ N, 122 ° 13 ’ W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Pelagic; depth: 152 – 2,160 m (500 – 7,085 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Prokofiev (2020) believes this species is limited to the Atlantic Ocean.