Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson 1848

Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848. Slender Snipe Eel. To about 2 m (78.7 in) TL (Roberts et al. 2015). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002) and Russian north-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to southern C...

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Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
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Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5600820
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5600820
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Summary:Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848. Slender Snipe Eel. To about 2 m (78.7 in) TL (Roberts et al. 2015). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002) and Russian north-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to southern Chile (52°S) (Sielfeld and Vargas 1996), including Gulf of California (Charter in Moser 1996). Primarily mesopelagic and bathypelagic, sometimes over continental shelf; depth: surface to 4,337 m (14,225 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Charter in Moser 1996). Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 38, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008