Benthosema suborbitale (Gilbert 1913)
- 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
- Benthosema
- species
- Benthosema suborbitale
description
To 3.9 cm (1.5 in) SL (Hulley in Whitehead et al. 1984). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002) and Russian north-western Pacific Ocean (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); off northern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Mesopelagic; depth: surface to 2,500 m (8,200 ft) (Orlov and Tokranov 2019).