Desmodema lorum Rosenblatt & Butler, 1977

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Desmodema lorum Rosenblatt & Butler, 1977 .

Whiptail Ribbonfish. To 110 cm (43.3 in) SL ( Rosenblatt and Butler 1977) or 114 cm (44.9 in) TL ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Temperate waters of North Pacific Ocean; Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984); southern Kuril Islands ( Parin et al. 1995); southern Oregon (44°26’N, 155°05’W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) to Peru ( Nakaya et al. 2009) , including Gulf of California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Epipelagic (Charter and Moser in Moser 1996) to mesopelagic ( Rosenblatt and Butler 1977); depth: adults from a minimum of at least 30 to at least 1,162 m (98–3,811) (min.: Martin 2015; max: NWFSC-FRAM).