Histiobranchus bathybius (Gunther 1877)
- 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
- Anguilliformes
- family
- Synaphobranchidae
- genus
- Histiobranchus
- species
- Histiobranchus bathybius
description
Deepwater Cutthroat Eel. To 137 cm (54 in) TL (Saldanha and Bauchot in Whitehead et al. 1986). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan and Russian North-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); unknown in eastern North Pacific except for one record from south-eastern Bering Sea, Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and one record from off Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Sulak and Shcherbachev 1997). Depth: 295 – 4,855 m (968 – 15,928 ft) (min.: Orlov and Tokranov 2019; max.: Saldanha and Bauchot in Whitehead et al. 1986). We classify this species in Histiobranchus following Sulak and Shcherbachev (1997). Histobranchus cf. bathybius was observed in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (about 12 ° 27.2 ’ N, 116 ° 38.9 ’ W), well south of the Cabo San Lucas record (Amon et al. 2017).