Lestidiops ringens

• 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; Aulopiformes; Paralepididae; Lestidiops; Lestidiops ringens; Beaufort Sea; Bering Sea; Kamchatka; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822056; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFAFFF8B98EAF961F84F37F4

Lestidiops ringens (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880). Slender Barracudina . To 25.2 cm (9.9 in) SL (Balanov et al. 2009). Northern Japan (Balanov et al. 2009); Pacific Ocean off southern Kuril Islands (Parin et al. 1995) to southern Kamchatka; western Bering Sea near Alaska border (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Gulf of Alaska (58°21’N, 147°51’W) (Stevenson et al. 2009) to southern Baja California (26°33’N, 115°41’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and Gulf of California (Castro-Aguirre 1991). Larvae have been taken in a number of locations in southern Baja California waters, as far south as about 25°N (Moser et al. 1993). Primarily mesopelagic (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 9–3,920 m (30–12,861 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Hart 1973). 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