Taaningichthys bathyphilus (Taning 1928)
- 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
- Myctophiformes
- family
- Myctophidae
- genus
- Taaningichthys
- species
- Taaningichthys bathyphilus
description
Black Lampfish. To 8 cm (3.1 in) SL (Nafpaktitis et al. 1977). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984), to Oregon (Matarese et al. 1989), to southern Baja California (24 ° 26 ’ N, 113 ° 18 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); South America (Wisner 1976). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic (Hulley and Paxton in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016); depth: 36 – 2,500 m (118 – 8,200 ft) (min.: Porteiro et al. 2017; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). The deepest record was based on the maximum depth fished by a midwater trawl and may represent a catch shallower than the maximum depth.