Alepisaurus ferox Lowe 1833

• 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; Aulopiformes; Alepisauridae; Alepisaurus; Alepisaurus ferox; Yukon; Bering Sea; Okhotsk; Pacific; Lowe; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5818915; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818915

Alepisaurus ferox Lowe, 1833. Longnose Lancetfish. To about 231 cm (90.9 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984), and Sea of Okhotsk, to Bering Sea as far northward as 58°21’N, 175°19’W (Maslenikov et al. 2013), and Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Epipelagic to bathypelagic; depth: near surface to 1,830 m (6,004 ft); primarily oceanic but often found close to shore (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 63, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008