Ceratoscopelus townsendi (Eigenmann & Eigenmann 1889)
- 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
- Ceratoscopelus
- species
- Ceratoscopelus townsendi
description
Dogtooth Lampfish. To about 8.5 cm (3.3 in) SL (Savinykh 1999). Circumglobal; Gulf of Alaska (59 ° 15 ’ N, 142 ° 08 ’ W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; confirmed by Katherine Maslenikov) to southern Baja California (27 ° 01 ’ N, 115 ° 15 ’ W) (De La Cruz-Agüero and Galván-Magaña 1992) and Chile (Pequeño 1989). Larvae have been taken south of Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Moser et al. 1993). Depth: surface to 800 m (2,625 ft) (Wisner 1976), reported but not confirmed to 923 m (3,028 ft) (Lauth 1999).