Barathronus pacificus Nielson & Eagle 1974

• 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; Ophidiiformes; Aphyonidae; Barathronus; Barathronus pacificus; Milton; New Zealand; Pacific; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5822376; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822376

Barathronus pacificus Nielson & Eagle, 1974. To 12.8 cm (5 in) SL (Nielsen and Eagle 1974). North and southeast Atlantic, southwest and northeast Pacific Ocean (Fricke et al. 2020); between Australia and New Zealand (Okiyama and Kato 1997); Oregon to northern California (Matarese et al. 1989). Benthopelagic (Nielsen and Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999); depth: 3,334 –3,860 m (10,938 –12,664 ft) (min.: Nielsen and Eagle 1974; max.: Pearcy et al. 1982). We follow Møller et al. (2016) and place this species (previously in the family Aphyonidae) in the Bythitidae. 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 84, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008