Gigantactis microdontis Bertelsen, Pietsch, & Lavenberg 1981
- 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
- Gigantactinidae
- genus
- Gigantactis
- species
- Gigantactis microdontis
description
To 31 cm (12.2 in) SL (Pietsch 2009). Western Pacific (Prokofiev and Pietsch 2019); Oregon (43 ° 31 ’ N, 124 ° 54 ’ W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) to southern California (Bertelsen et al. 1981); Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California); Peru (Bertelsen et al. 1981). Mesopelagic to bathypelagic; depth: taken in open nets fished above 1,200 m (3,937 ft) (Bertelsen et al. 1981).