Pachystomias microdon

• 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; Stomiidae; Pachystomias; Pachystomias microdon; Yukon; Baja; Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Milton; Scripps; Beaufort Sea; Russian North; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5601688; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5601688

Pachystomias microdon (Günther, 1878). Large-eye Dragonfish. To more than 22 cm (8.7 in) SL. Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to northern Japan (Balanov et al. 2009), and Russian north-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); southern Bering Sea, Alaska, Gulf of Alaska and Washington (Stevenson et al. 2009); also eastern Pacific in North Central Gyre at latitude of central Baja California (27°27’N, 155°27’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: 240–4,463 m (787–14,642 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Mecklenburg 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 60, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008