Melamphaes lugubris Gilbert, 1891

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Melamphaes lugubris Gilbert, 1891 .

Highsnout Bigscale or Highsnout Ridgehead. To 10.9 cm (4.3 in) SL ( Sinclair and Stabeno 2002). Subarctic North Pacific from Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984), and Sea of Okhotsk, to Bering Sea (about 56°N), and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to southern Baja California (25°30’N, 115°17’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); one record from off Michoacán (17°54.1’N, 103°23.8’W), Mexico (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Adults mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depths: 150– 2,287 m (492–7,501 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California); juveniles as shallow as 30 m (98 ft) (Personal communication: Russian Academy of Science Ichthyological Collecton at Saint Petersberg). A record of 4,393 m (16,200 ft) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) was based on the maximum depth fished by a midwater trawl and may represent a catch shallower than the maximum depth.