Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson 1848
- 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
- Anguilliformes
- family
- Nemichthyidae
- genus
- Nemichthys
- species
- Nemichthys scolopaceus
description
Slender Snipe Eel. To about 2 m (78.7 in) TL (Roberts et al. 2015). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002) and Russian north-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to southern Chile (52 ° S) (Sielfeld and Vargas 1996), including Gulf of California (Charter in Moser 1996). Primarily mesopelagic and bathypelagic, sometimes over continental shelf; depth: surface to 4,337 m (14,225 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Charter in Moser 1996).