Aristostomias scintillans (Gilbert 1915)
- 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
- Stomiidae
- genus
- Aristostomias
- species
- Aristostomias scintillans
description
Shining Loosejaw. To 23 cm (9 in) TL (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). Russian north-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); Gulf of Alaska (59 ° 09 ’ N, 146 ° 06 ’ W) (Stevenson et al. 2009) to southern Baja California (23 ° 17 ’ N, 120 ° 33 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); also near equator (7 ° N) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Report from Bering Sea probably in error (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: 29 – 1,357 m (95 – 4,451 ft) (min.: Aron 1960; max.: NWFSC-FRAM), and perhaps surface (Orlov and Tokranov 2019) and 2,001 m (6,563 ft) (Milkova et al. 2016).