Trichiurus nitens Garman, 1899

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

Trichiurus nitens Garman, 1899 .

Pacific Cutlassfish. To 82 cm (32.3 in) SL ( Burhanuddin and Parin 2008). Hunter’s Point, Monterey County (37°43.8’N, 122°21.4’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), central California to Callao, Peru (Chirchigno 1974), including Gulf of California (Nakamura in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface to 384 m (1,260 ft) (min.: Nakamura and Parin 1993; max.: Miller and Lea 1972). A much deeper capture (1,023 m, 3,355 ft) ( Morera et al. 2019) was made with a bottom trawl and may represent a fish taken in midwaters either during net deployment or retrieval. Burhanuddin and Parin (2008) recognized T. nitens as distinct from other nominal Trichiurus species.