Hygophum proximum Becker 1965

• 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; Myctophiformes; Myctophidae; Hygophum; Hygophum proximum; Yukon; Pacific; Milton; Scripps; Moser; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5822133; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822133

Hygophum proximum Becker, 1965. To 5.8 cm (2.3 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); southern California (32°51.6’N, 123°56.1’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Epipelagic and mesopelagic (Moser and Ahlstrom in Moser 1996); depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to perhaps as deep as 3,820 m (12,530 ft) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). 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 68, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008