Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848

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 : 38

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scientific name	Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848
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Slender Snipe Eel. To about 2 m (78.7 in) TL ( Roberts et al. 2015). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002) and Russian north-western Pacific ( Orlov and Tokranov 2019); Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to southern Chile (52°S) (Sielfeld and Vargas 1996), including Gulf of California (Charter in Moser 1996). Primarily mesopelagic and bathypelagic, sometimes over continental shelf; depth: surface to 4,337 m (14,225 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Charter in Moser 1996).

References

Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.

Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.

Orlov, A. M. & Tokranov, A. M. (2019) Checklist of deep-sea fishes of the Russian northwestern Pacific Ocean found at depths below 1000 m. Progress in Oceanography, 176, https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pocean. 2019.102143

Roberts, C. D., Stewart, A. L. & Struthers, C. D. (Eds.). (2015) The Fishes of New Zealand. Te Papa Press, Wellington.