Hygophum proximum Becker 1965
- 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
- Myctophiformes
- family
- Myctophidae
- genus
- Hygophum
- species
- Hygophum proximum
description
To 5.8 cm (2.3 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); southern California (32 ° 51.6 ’ N, 123 ° 56.1 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Epipelagic and mesopelagic (Moser and Ahlstrom in Moser 1996); depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to perhaps as deep as 3,820 m (12,530 ft) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).
Name
- Homonyms
- Hygophum proximum Becker 1965