Melanocetus johnsonii Gunther 1864

• 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; Lophiiformes; Melanocetidae; Melanocetus; Melanocetus johnsonii; Beaufort Sea; Russian North; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818935; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFC6FFE298EAFE9CF89B3267

Melanocetus johnsonii Günther, 1864. Blackdevil . To 15.4 cm (6.1 in) SL (Theodore Pietsch), 18 cm (7.1 in) TL (Pietsch 1986). A record of 64 cm (25.2 in) SL (Kong and Meléndez 1991) is an error. Circumglobal (Pietsch in Smith and Heemstra 1986); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002) and Russian North Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); as far north as off British Columbia (48°41’N, 126°30’W) (Weil et al. 2015) and south to northern Chile (31°14’S) (Kong and Meléndez 1991). Depth: about 100–3,603 m (328–11,818 ft) (min.: Bertelsen in Whitehead et al. 1986; max.: Porteiro et al. 2017). A record of 4,500 m (14,760 ft) (Froese and Pauly 2019) is an error (Theodore Pietsch). 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 88, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008