Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (Smith 1843)
- 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
- Gempylidae
- genus
- Lepidocybium
- species
- Lepidocybium flavobrunneum
description
Escolar. To 220 cm (86.6 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002) and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); Point Vicente, southern California (Fitch and Schultz 1978) to Cabo Blanco, Peru (Chirichigno 1974); apparently not in Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Miller and Lea (1972) give Washington State as the northern-most record — a record without documentation according to Fitch and Schultz (1978). Oceanic pelagic and mesopelagic; depth: 25 – 1,100 m (82 – 3,608 ft) (min.: Azevedo and Heemstra 1995; max.: Duffy and Ahlong 2015).