Aphanopus arigato Parin, 1994

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 : 210

Aphanopus arigato Parin, 1994 .

Pacific Black Scabbardfish. To 120 cm (47.2 in) TL ( Nakabo 2002). Japan, Kuril Islands ( Nakamura and Parin 1993), and south-eastern Kamchatka ( Sheiko and Fedorov 2000); British Columbia southward to near Punta Eugenia (27°33’N, 115°53W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), southern Baja California. Records from northern Chile ( Nakamura and Parin 1993), Peru, and Islas Galápagos ( McCosker et al. 1997) are likely Aphanopus capricornis Parin, 1994 . Benthopelagic; depth: adults mostly at 800–1,350 m (2,624 –4,428 ft) ( Nakamura and Parin 1993), at least one at about 498 m (1,620 ft) ( Fitch and Gotshall 1972); juveniles mesopelagic, at 300–1,000 m (984– 3,280 ft) ( Nakamura and Parin 1993); also reported at surface ( Orlov and Tokranov 2019). North Pacific records of Aphanopus carbo Lowe, 1839 , are now considered to belong to A. arigato , while A. carbo is recognized as an Atlantic Ocean taxon. Sometimes referred to as Aphanopus intermedius Parin, 1983 , now considered to be an eastern Atlantic species ( Fricke et al. 2020).