Lipolagus ochotensis

• 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; Osmeriformes; Bathylagidae; Lipolagus; Lipolagus ochotensis; Baja; Bering Sea; Milton; Okhotsk; Scripps; Sinclair; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5601430; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5601430

Lipolagus ochotensis (Schmidt, 1938). Popeye Blacksmelt. To 20 cm (7.9 in) TL (Sinclair et al. 2015). Australia (Fricke et al. 2020); Southern Honshu, Japan, and Sea of Okhotsk to Bering Sea (Kobyliansky 1985), to southeast of Cabo San Lucas (22°27’N, 110°59’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Adults generally within mesopelagic depths (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); depth: surface to perhaps 4,100 m (13,448 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). A maximum depth of 6,100 m (Kanayama in Amaoka et al. 1983) is considered unlikely and probably reflects “incidental catches during trawl hauling to the surface” (Fujii et al. 2010). 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 47, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008