Lestidiops ringens (Jordan & Gilbert 1880)
- 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
- Aulopiformes
- family
- Paralepididae
- genus
- Lestidiops
- species
- Lestidiops ringens
description
Slender Barracudina. To 25.2 cm (9.9 in) SL (Balanov et al. 2009). Northern Japan (Balanov et al. 2009); Pacific Ocean off southern Kuril Islands (Parin et al. 1995) to southern Kamchatka; western Bering Sea near Alaska border (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Gulf of Alaska (58 ° 21 ’ N, 147 ° 51 ’ W) (Stevenson et al. 2009) to southern Baja California (26 ° 33 ’ N, 115 ° 41 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and Gulf of California (Castro-Aguirre 1991). Larvae have been taken in a number of locations in southern Baja California waters, as far south as about 25 ° N (Moser et al. 1993). Primarily mesopelagic (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 9 – 3,920 m (30 – 12,861 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Hart 1973).