Himantolophus nigricornis Bertelsen & Krefft 1988
- 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
- Lophiiformes
- family
- Himantolophidae
- genus
- Himantolophus
- species
- Himantolophus nigricornis
description
Black Horned Footballfish. To 19.7 cm (7.8 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Indo-Pacific; Monterey Bay, central California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); San Clemente Basin, southern California. Depth: scanty catch data imply this species may live at between at least 219 – 2,500 m (720 – 8,200 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Bertelsen and Krefft 1988).