Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson 1848

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Anguilliformes; Nemichthyidae; Nemichthys; Nemichthys scolopaceus; Yukon; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Milton; Moser; Beaufort Sea; Russian North; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5600820; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5600820

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