Alepocephalus tenebrosus Gilbert 1892
- 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
- Osmeriformes
- family
- Alepocephalidae
- genus
- Alepocephalus
- species
- Alepocephalus tenebrosus
description
California Slickhead. To 61 cm (24 in) TL (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). Eastern Gulf of Alaska (59 ° 33 ’ N, 144 ° 15 ’ W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to southern Baja California (23 ° 12.6 ’ N) (Cruz-Acevedo et al. 2018); central America (Robertson et al. 2017); Chile (Ambrose in Moser 1996). Reports from eastern Bering Sea not verifiable (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthopelagic; depth: 115 – 2,287 m (377 – 7,501 ft) (min.: Morera et al. 20019; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Mecklenburg et al. (2002) note that the depth range of 46 – 5,486 m (150 – 18,000 ft) given by Fitch and Lavenberg (1968) may apply to the family as a whole and not necessarily to A. tenebrosus.