A checklist of the deep sea fishes of the Levant Sea, Mediterranean Sea Author Goren, Menachem Author Galil, Bella S. text Zootaxa 2015 3994 4 507 530 journal article 39726 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.4.2 8fe4fa70-d7bb-4540-950a-af769d8cb7d6 1175-5326 244394 97DE8F58-A2F7-485E-B994-B88700449E31 Hygophum hygomii (Lütken, 1892) Scopelus hygomi Lütken, 1892 : (237) 256. Type locality: ca. 200 km east of the Azores, Atlantic Ocean. Hygophum hygomii , Galil & Goren, 1994 : 49 ; Goren & Galil, 1997 : 201 , 2002: 151. Distribution. Circumglobal; depth range 0– 800 m . In the Levant, the maximum known depth is 1485 m ( Galil & Goren, 1994 ).