Melanostigma pammelas Gilbert 1896
- 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
- Perciformes
- family
- Zoarcidae
- genus
- Melanostigma
- species
- Melanostigma pammelas
description
Midwater Eelpout or Pacific Softpout. To 12.2 cm (4.8 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); 13.3 cm (5.2 in) TL (Lancraft 1982). South of Umnak-Unalaska Islands (53 ° 25 ’ N, 168 ° 10 ’ W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico (Anderson 1994). Mesopelagic and possibly bathypelagic; depth: collected in nets towed from 91 – 2,012 m (298 – 6,601 ft) (min.: Kamikawa 2017; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Name
- Homonyms
- Melanostigma pammelas Gilbert 1896