Benthalbella dentata (Chapman, 1939)

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 62

Benthalbella dentata (Chapman, 1939) .

Northern Pearleye. To 28 cm (11 in) TL or more (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002), to Sea of Okhotsk, and western Bering Sea ( Orlov 1998), eastern Bering Sea (58°30’N, 177°52’W) ( Maslenikov et al. 2013), and Gulf of Alaska ( Johnson 1974), to Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Watson and Sandknop in Moser 1996); also at 10°21’N, 96°12’W (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and 10°31.3’N, 126°00’W (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Primarily mesopelagic; depth: 59–1,502 m (196–4,927 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Shinohara et al. 2009) and perhaps to 2,083 m (6,832 ft) ( Milkova et al. 2016). A report of a catch at 3,400 m (11,155 ft, Fedorov 2000 (Personal communication: Russian Academy of Science Ichthyological Collecton at Saint Petersberg)) may be problematic, as this is a mesopelagic species; the specimen may have entered the net above the maximum depth of the tow ( Love et al. 2005).