Valenciennellus tripunctulatus (Esmark 1871)
- 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
- Valenciennellus
- species
- Valenciennellus tripunctulatus
description
To 8 cm (3.1 in) SL (Harold in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to central Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); well offshore California (e. g., Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California), and east side of Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Depth: 36 – 3,000 m (118 – 9,848 ft) (min.: Porteiro et al. 2017; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).