Bajacalifornia megalops

• 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; Osmeriformes; Alepocephalidae; Bajacalifornia; Bajacalifornia megalops; Beaufort Sea; Bering Sea; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5821988; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFA1FF8598EAFD04FB75340E

Bajacalifornia megalops (Lütken, 1898). Bigeye Smooth-head . About 40 cm (15.7 in) (Roberts et al. 2015). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to northern Japan ( B. erimoensis , Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); southeastern Bering Sea (54°08’N, 167°51’W); also three records from U.S. West Coast, off Washington (47°52’N, 125°52’W), Oregon (45°47’N, 124°46.8’W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013), and southern California (33°23.4’N, 119°58.2’W), southern California (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; as Bajacalifornia erimoensis ). Depth: 150–3,200 m (492–10,496 ft) (Kamikawa 2017). Bajacalifornia erimoensis Amaoka & Abe, 1977 is a junior synonym. 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 49, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008