Sigmops gracilis

• 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; Stomiiformes; Gonostomatidae; Sigmops; Sigmops gracilis; Bering Sea; Milton; Pacific; Sinclair; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5601616; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5601616

Sigmops gracilis (Günther, 1878). Slender Fangjaw. To 14.6 cm (6 in) SL (Sinclair and Stabeno 2002).; Central and northern Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); eastern Bering Sea (57°45’N, 173°56’W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) and eastern North Pacific Ocean as far south as northern California (40°54’N, 124°29’W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington); confirmed by Katherine Maslenikov). Primarily mesopelagic; depth: near surface to 4,389 m (14,399 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). 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 56, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008