Diretmoides pauciradiatus (Woods 1973)
- 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
- Beryciformes
- family
- Diretmidae
- genus
- Diretmoides
- species
- Diretmoides pauciradiatus
description
To about 40 cm (15.8 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Kyashu – Palau Ridge, southern Japan (Hayashi in Nakabo 2002), and Washington (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Depth: about 198 m to at least 1,880 m (650 – 6,168 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Hayashi in Nakabo 2002). Adults mainly below 500 m (1,640 ft) (Post in Whitehead et al. 1986), juveniles as shallow as 50 m (165 ft) (Post and Quéro 1981).