Melanostigma pammelas Gilbert 1896

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Perciformes; Zoarcidae; Melanostigma; Melanostigma pammelas; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5608157; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF29FF0D98EAFB00FEF53598

Melanostigma pammelas Gilbert, 1896. Midwater Eelpout or Pacific Softpout. To 12.2 cm (4.8 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); 13.3 cm (5.2 in) TL (Lancraft 1982). South of Umnak-Unalaska Islands (53°25’N, 168°10’W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico (Anderson 1994). Mesopelagic and possibly bathypelagic; depth: collected in nets towed from 91–2,012 m (298–6,601 ft) (min.: Kamikawa 2017; max.: 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 185, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008