Anoplogaster cornuta (Valenciennes 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
- Beryciformes
- family
- Anoplogastridae
- genus
- Anoplogaster
- species
- Anoplogaster cornuta
description
Fangfish, Fangtooth, or Longhorn Fangtooth. To 16.4 cm (6.5 in) SL (Porteiro et al. 2017). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to northern Japan (Shimizu 1978) and Sea of Okhotsk (Kotlyar 1986); western Gulf of Alaska (53 ° 37 ’ N, 154 ° 19 ’ W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to northern Chile (18 ° 26 ’ S) (Kong and Meléndez 1991). Mesopelagic to bathypelagic; depth: adults at 75 – 4,992 m (246 – 16,378 ft); juveniles as shallow as 2 m (7 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).