Melanonus zugmayeri Norman, 1930

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 : 79

Melanonus zugmayeri Norman, 1930 .

Arrowtail, Black Pelagic Cod, or Coalfish. To 29.4 cm (11.6 in) TL ( Henriques et al. 2001). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Honshu, Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002), and Russian north-western Pacific ( Orlov and Tokranov 2019); near Alaska off Dixon Entrance, northern British Columbia ( Love et al. 2005), southern British Columbia ( Peden 1975), and northern Washington to southern California (NWFSC-FRAM) to northern Chile (21°05’S, 71°07’W) ( Meléndez and Sielfeld 1991). Oceanic, mainly mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: 0–3,000 m (9,840 ft) (min: Moore et al. 2003; max.: Mundy 2005).